Re: [clouds] A cloud ref. framework for your review and comments

Every man and his dog is trying to [re]define cloud so I would be quite
happy for us to leave this well alone, which is to say I don't accept the
opening premise that "*Currently there is no Standard Reference Framework
for Cloud Services, so first we need to develop a Reference Framework*".

If we must then I would suggest working with the already well accepted 3
layer stack:

   - Application
   - Platform
   - Infrastructure

If you want a *functional* taxonomy (that is, one which is capable of
categorising everything in the space without polluting these
*service*layers with
*products*) then you can add server and client layers ala:

   - Client (Android, iOS, etc.)
   - Application (Gmail, Salesforce.com, MS BPOS, etc.)
   - Platform (Azure, App Engine, Heroku, etc.)
   - Infrastructure (Amazon EC2, EBS, VPC, etc.)
   - Server (Cisco UCS, SGI CloudRack, etc.)

Note that these two additional layers are typically products (hardware
and/or software) while the three main layers are always services.

There's no need to find/create complexity where there need be none.

Sam

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On 30 July 2010 17:41, Fargano, Michael <Michael.Fargano@qwest.com> wrote:

> Bhumip:
>
> I was not at the BoF. I was just wondering how the proposed framework
> relates to commonly understood Cloud terms like IaaS, PaaS, SaaS...??? For
> example see NIST Definition of Cloud:
> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html
>
> I'm sure you discussed this at the BoD. Perhaps an explanation in the slide
> deck would help.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> ________________________________________
> From: clouds-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:clouds-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Bhumip Khasnabish
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 4:38 AM
> To: clouds@ietf.org
> Subject: [clouds] A cloud ref. framework for your review and comments
>
> Dear All,
>
> After the Clouds bar BoF yesterday, a few of us got together to work on
> developing a simple Cloud reference framework.
> Attached pls find the output of that discussion.
>
> We look forward to your constructive comments and suggestions to improve
> and finalize the ref. framework. Thanks  a lot.
>
> Best Regards.
> Bhumip
>
> Bhumip Khasnabish (Mobile:+001-781-752-8003, vumip1@gmail.com)
>
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