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TM Forum Details Cloud IaaS Requirements: Page 2 of 2

TM Forum--an association that includes technology vendors such as HP and IBM, as well as more than 750 of the world's largest service providers in the communications, media and cloud service markets--has just delivered what it calls the industry's first set of Enterprise-Grade External Compute Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Requirements. Put together by the association's Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC), the document includes guidelines for terminology; requirements for external pr
January 28, 2011

Edwards says that everybody is trying to figure out how best to be involved with cloud computing, and that what's going on today will be very different from what will be happening in three to four years. Getting vendor buy-in is the next step, he says.

Based on end users' experience and requirements, the document is intended to assist cloud service providers and technology suppliers to determine customer demands, drive direction on standards and best practices, and remove barriers to adoption. Vendors need to map their product and service offerings against those requirements.

There's never been a similar initiative in any other industry, says Edwards. "We're in the right place at the right time to drive best practices and standards in the right direction as quickly as possible."
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