OpenStack Adoption, Deployments Surge as Enterprises Increasingly Favor Multi-Cloud Strategies

OpenStack Summit Sydney: Surveys conducted by five organizations, including the OpenStack Foundation User Survey, document acceleration of OpenStack adoption across industries and regions, and attest to the open source software’s “essential” role in multi-cloud environments, NFV and IoT/edge computing. The OpenStack Foundation’s tenth User Survey was released today at the OpenStack Summit in Sydney. Nearly… Continue reading OpenStack Adoption, Deployments Surge as Enterprises Increasingly Favor Multi-Cloud Strategies

OASIS Forms TOSCA Technical Committee to Advance Open Standard for Cloud Portability

The OASIS international consortium has launched a new open standards initiative to enhance the portability of cloud applications and services. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee will advance an interoperability standard that will make it easier to deploy cloud applications without vendor lock-in, while maintaining application requirements for security,… Continue reading OASIS Forms TOSCA Technical Committee to Advance Open Standard for Cloud Portability

Committee to Advance Identity Standards for Cloud Computing

The international consortium, OASIS, has formed a new group to address the serious security challenges posed by identity management in cloud computing. The new OASIS Identity in the Cloud (IDCloud) Technical Committee will identify gaps in existing identity management standards and investigate the need for profiles to achieve interoperability within current standards.