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Cloud Governance

What is Cloud Governance?

Cloud governance can be defined as the set of policies or principles that act as a guidance for the adoption, use and management of cloud technology services. Cloud governance is an ongoing process that must sit on top of existing governance models. Cloud governance can be compared to an insurance policy which does not prevent disaster but instead lays the path to easy recovery in case of a catastrophe.

Organisations and Groups that Focus on Addressing Standards Issues:

There are a lot of cloud computing standards organisations and informal groups that are dedicated to address various standards issues that arise in any cloud environment. These groups have defined various guidelines and best practices to help interoperability and portability of data and applications. Some of the well-known organisations are as follows:

  1. • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
  2. • Cloud Security Alliance
  3. • Open Grid Forum (OGF)
  4. • Object Management Group (OMG)
  5. • Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
  6. • Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
  7. • Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
  8. • Open Cloud Consortium (OCC)

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