Cloud controversy
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A group of 38 companies have signed up to call for open standards which would allow access to large data centres and applications to be run remotely.
However, Microsoft has criticised the plan saying it was only given two days to sign up, with no input, while Google and Amazon have both declined to be involved.
The Open Cloud Manifesto has been designed to initiate a conversation that will bring together the emerging cloud computing community around a core set of principles.
The manifesto has received backing from companies such as IBM, Cisco and Sun Microsystems.
The proposal stated: "We have outlined the challenges facing organisations that want to take advantage of the cloud. These issues lead to a call to action for the IT industry around a vision of an open cloud. We as industry participants must work together to ensure that the cloud remains as open as all other IT technologies. Although this is a time of great innovation for the cloud computing community, that innovation should be guided by the principles of openness outlined in this document. We argue that it is exactly the right time to begin the work to build the open cloud."
Concerns such as security, data and application interoperability, and metering and monitoring are addressed in the manifesto.
