This is an article posted on CloudAve.
As you might know the Open Cloud Manifesto debuted on March 30st.
It outlines the pillars of Cloud Computing as well giving a brief on what the possible threats and weaknesses could challenge the early and future adopters.
The manifesto declares 4 major goals of an Open Cloud:
- Choice; to give total freedom to the cloud clients in choosing between different cloud providers with no barriers
- Flexibility; to maximize the interoperability between Clouds and organizations on different Clouds.
- Speed and Agility; to employ open interfaces to allow organizations to build solutions that easily and quickly integrate