Don't know whether it is representative (or even significant), but seems to cover the user side -- maybe we should watch this. -Alexander Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

Von: Silvana Muscella <s.muscella@trust-itservices.com> Datum: 6. April 2011 07:14:57 MESZ An: <reb@sienainitiative.eu> Betreff: [REB-SIENA] I: Cloud Customer Council Antwort an: <s.muscella@trust-itservices.com>

Dear REB, I wanted to make you aware of this Cloud Customer council that Andrew, VP and technical director of OMG has sent to the cloudstandards group. With thanks Silvana -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Watson <andrew@omg.org> Sender: cloudstandards@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 18:52:23 To: <cloudstandards@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: cloudstandards@googlegroups.com Subject: Cloud Customer Council

Dear Clouds Standards Group,

You may be interested to know that the Cloud Customer Council is being launched on Wednesday this week via a series of analyst meetings. There will be a public launch on 13th April at IBM's IMPACT 2011 conference in Las Vegas.

The Cloud Customer Council is an end-user advocacy group dedicated to accelerating cloud's successful adoption, and drilling down into the implementation, developing requirements for standards, security and interoperability issues surrounding the transition to the cloud.

This customer-led organization will provide detailed requirements to the traditional standards development organisations. Those requirements will give guidance to cloud standards efforts and will make customer needs clear to vendors in the cloud marketplace. With participation from a variety of industries and with implementations examples across cloud service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), the council is positioned to identify the standards gaps in hybrid and heterogeneous cloud solutions. While some standards groups focus on specific aspects of cloud computing, this group will focus on the broad set of requirements and interaction between service layers, the data centre, and deployment models (public/private clouds). In pulling together this holistic view of an open cloud, it is much more aligned with real world customer requirements.

The web site should go live shortly.

If you have any questions, please let me know, and I'll make sure they get answered after the formal launch.

Regards,

Andrew Andrew Watson Tel: +44 7710 469624 Vice President & Technical Director, Email: andrew@omg.org Object Management Group http://www.omg.org/~andrew

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