The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that its Cloud Computing Program – NCCP, is forming three public working groups to provide solutions to cloud computing challenges.
NCCP provides leadership and guidance to catalyze and facilitate the use of cloud computing within industry and government, and it recently held a teleconference to recruit new members.
NIST said the working groups bring together industry, government and academic experts from across the world to address requirements laid out in the NIST’s Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Release 1.0 draft (http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/upload/SP_500_293_volumeI-2.pdf).
They will include an interoperability and portability for cloud computing working group, a cloud services working group (which will address the roadmap’s Requirement 4 – clearly and consistently categorized cloud services) and a frameworks working group (addressing the roadmap’s Requirement 5 – Frameworks to support seamless implementation of federated community cloud environments), according to NIST.
Link: www.nist.gov/itl/cloud.
