This week is the annual meeting of global industry leaders to work on the SC/7 software standards to be held in Paris, France. Standards are extremely important to CA Technologies and as such, we are sponsoring the event. Yves Le Roux from the CA Technologies France office will be delivering a keynote address to representatives from over 40 countries. Amongst the many standards, the assembled group will be working on the ISO/IEC 20000 Service Management series, ISO/IEC 19770 software series and of course a series of governance standards in the recently created WG40.
We will discuss many things at the meetings but the report that is attracting my interest is the study report tabled by the ISO/IEC JTC/1SC& WG1A (WG40) on the possibility of Additional Standards in the Area of Cloud Computing.
Cloud computing is indeed a topic this is gaining traction globally, reinforced, in my mind, by the changing industry dynamics including almost ubiquitous connectivity that exists today combined with the expectation of computing capability anywhere, anytime. Combine that with rapid rate of change we expect. Of course the issue of data access and protection has been discussed globally as a potential issue but many organizations are making risk based decisions to leverage the cloud.
Standards that I believe may be under consideration should include a standard vocabulary and standards for service management in the cloud. Of course, there will be interest in a governance framework and standard and many other initiatives.
I will keep you apprised of events at the meetings through the blog and follow me on twitter (@robertestroud).