A Message from SNIA Get the new whitepaper on Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing The Storage Networking Industry Association in conjunction with the Open Grid Forum have recently published a whitepaper on Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing. The Cloud has become a new vehicle for delivering resources such as computing and storage to customers on demand. Rather than being a new technology in itself, the cloud is a new business model wrapped around new technologies such as server virtualization that take advantage of economies of scale and multi-tenancy to reduce the cost of using information technology resources. This paper discusses the business drivers in the Cloud delivery mechanism and business model, what the requirements are in this space, and how standard interfaces, coordinated between different organizations can meet the emerging needs for interoperability and portability of data between clouds. To learn more about SNIA's Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard, and how it works with Cloud Computing standards such as the OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) please download the new whitepaper from one of the following locations: SNIA Site <http://www.snia.org/cloud/CloudStorageForCloudComputing.pdf> OGF Site <http://ogf.org/Resources/documents/CloudStorageForCloudComputing.pdf> snia.org <http://www.snia.org/> ogf.org <http://ogf.org/> © 2009 Storage Networking Industry Association © 2009 Open Grid Forum