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The OMG Cloud Working Group, formed in July 2018, is the successor to the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC), started in 2011.
The OMG Cloud Working Group publishes vendor-neutral guidance on important considerations for cloud computing adoption – highlighting standards, opportunities for standardization, cloud customer requirements, and best practices to foster an ecosystem of open, standards-based cloud computing technologies.
The co-chairs of the Working Group are, as of March 2021:
Co-chair roles and responsibilities are less formal in an OMG Working Group than they are in a Special Interest Group or Task Force. There are no formal policies and procedures about the organization of a WG. However, it is our intent to periodically ask CWG members to formally elect the group's co-chairs.
As of March 2021, membership in the CWG is open, free, and not restricted to holders of an OMG membership. However, co-chairs must be from an OMG member company. You should expect to see some change to the status of OMG working groups during 2021, mostly to better manage intellectual property generated by such groups.
The CWG largely operates through work performed “off-line” by its members, such as the writing and editing of discussion papers.
In addition, status reviews and discussions of the CWG's roadmap will occur during regular OMG meetings. The initial cadence of meetings, agreed at the 25 Sep 2018 kickoff meeting in Ottawa, is:
Our next OMG Cloud WG meetings are scheduled for:
The agenda of our meetings generally follows this pattern:
Below is a table of reports from prior meetings:
Year | Quarter | Link | Remarks |
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2021 | Q4 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 07 Dec 2021 | Draft |
2021 | Q3 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 28 Sept 2021 | Draft |
2021 | Q2 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 15 Jun 2021 | Draft |
2021 | Q1 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Mar 2021 | Google Docs draft |
2020 | Q4 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 9 Dec 2020 | |
2020 | Q3 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 16 Sep 2020 | |
2020 | Q2 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Jun 2020 | |
2020 | Q1 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 25 Mar 2020 | Google Docs draft |
2019 | Q4 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 11 Dec 2019 in Long Beach | |
2019 | Q3 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 24 Sep 2019 in Nashville | |
2019 | Q2 | Notes from the CWG meeting on 18 June 2019 in Amsterdam |
The CSCC created 27 guides or papers during its existence. All of those are now classified as “OMG Discussion Papers,” although they are not being re-published with a new title or cover page at this time. The change in name and branding will occur as the papers are updated. With the new papers added by the OMG Cloud Working group since 2019, there are now 29 guides or papers, listed below.
The roadmap for the writing of new Discussion Papers or the updating of existing ones will be decided by the group as a whole during its meetings. The workflow for each paper will conclude with:
In general, the last two steps will take place during an in-person Task Force meeting during an OMG Technical Meeting week. In exceptional cases, this may be replaced by an e-mail vote if the Task Force chairs agree, to avoid delaying the paper.
We generally raise the possibility of updating an existing paper or guide when it is about three years old. Major reason to update a paper may be:
In addition, revisions should address the following objectives:
Title | Leaders | Kick-off | External Draft | Planned Vote |
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Practical Guide to Data Governance in the Cloud | Jean-Claude Franchitti | Mar 2021 | May 2022 | June 2022? |
Cloud Interoperability and Portability (v3.0) | Lisa Schenkewitz | May 2022 | June 2022 | ? |
Cloud Service Agreement Standard Template (RFC?) | Claude Baudoin, Troy Anderson | Jan 2022 | Aug 2022 | Dec 2022 |
** Glossary of XaaS ** | Karolyn Schalk (?), Claude Baudoin et al. | January 2022 | May 2022 | June 2022 |
When new papers are released, they may supersede similar considerations previously included in some other papers, in which case those will need to be revised accordingly in due time.
The roadmap for the next cycles (reviewed at each meeting) currently includes:
Per OMG policies and procedures, there are now new types of deliverables that the CWG may undertake:
However, RFPs and RFCs can only be issued by a Technical Committee upon recommendation of a Task Force. The CWG will generally request such a recommendation from the Middleware and Related Services (MARS) Platform Task Force, but may from time to time go through another, more relevant Task Force.
Interested OMG and non-OMG participants are invited to join the CWG.
We have a mailing list, [email protected]. If you join the CWG, you will be added to the distribution. To ask to be added to the mailing list manually, or to unsubscribe, please click here, state your request in the message, and press Send.
In 2020, OMG mailing lists will become closed to non-members after a transition period. We will continue to broadcast important news on our LinkedIn group. In order to see all the information generated by the CWG, please bookmark this wiki page and visit it periodically, and consider joining OMG as a member. This will give you access to all of OMG's work, not just the CWG's.
The following people are currently able to edit this wiki directly, and more will be added as appropriate:
Others should be able to use the discussion box to suggest changes, and the authors will implement the changes or discuss them with the authors of the suggestions. If you encounter any difficulty doing so, please contact Claude Baudoin.
Also contact Claude if you wish to become an author/editor of this wiki. You will be given your own username and password to do so.
This is a list of relevant international and national standards; compliance or certification programs; and other initiatives, strategies, policies, procedures, and governance documents that should be considered when formulating positions, creating documents, or suggesting OMG standardization efforts.
In existence:
In progress:
(under construction, in part by collecting references from the existing CSCC guides and white papers, or those sent by members of this group)
Help us populate this section by sending event listings to the CWG co-chairs. If you attend an event, please take notes and transform them into a subpage of this wiki (we'll explain how – see Section 5.2).
COVID-19 has caused all in-person events to be cancelled since March 2020. Many events became virtual and registration fees are drastically lower (sometimes zero), for those virtual events. This provides an opportunity to stay informed of trends and use cases at low cost.
Event | Dates | Location | Notes |
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7th ICCCBDA | Apr 22-24, 2022 | Chengdu, CN | The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics (ICCCBDA), held in Chengdu, China, between 22-24 April 2022. ICCCBDA has been held since 2016. Sponsored by IEEE and Sichuan Institute of Electronics, co-sponsored by China National GeneBank (CNGB), organized by Xihua University, co-organized by Southwest Jiaotong University and Sichuan University, China; technically supported by CNGB, Key Lab of Cloud Computing & Intelligent Technology, Sichuan Province, and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. |
CLOSER 2022 | Apr 27-29, 2022 | Virtual/Prague, CZ | The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), focuses on the highly important area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. |
Gartner Application Innovation Summit | May 3-4, 2022 | Virtual | Join us and hundreds of your peers at the virtual Gartner Application Innovation Summit and to hear and share the latest insights into application strategy, software engineering leadership, API strategies, artificial intelligence (AI), customer experience, enterprise architecture and more. |
MIT Future Compute | May 3-4, 2022 | Virtual/Boston, MA | Future Compute is an executive summary of computing technology for IT and business leaders tasked with maximizing innovation and technology for success. From the latest in edge, quantum, 5G, IoT, and AI to what’s emerging in silicon, spatial, the metaverse, and more. Join us on the MIT campus or online from anywhere in the world. |
EIC Identity and Cloud Conference | May 10-13, 2022 | Virtual/Berlin, DE | Also operating a hybrid event (in-person and online), the European Identity and Cloud Conference has moved from Munich to Berlin for 2022, intending to discuss key topics including cloud infrastructure and cloud network security from over 200 speakers. |
IEEE/ACM Intl Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing | May 16-29, 2022 | Messina, IT | The symposium serves as an international discussion for sharing research and successful internet and cloud computing strategies. The symposium has been held every year since 2001, and this 2022 conference will be held in Italy. |
KubeCon/CloudNativeCon | May 16-20, 2022 | Virtual/Valencia, Spain | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Valencia, Spain in May 2022. Join us as our community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. |
IEEE Cloud 2022 | Jul 10-16, 2022 | Barcelona, Spain | The scope of SERVICES 2022 covers all aspects of services computing and applications, current or emerging. Centered around services computing, SERVICES 2022 covers various systems and networking research pertaining to cloud, edge and Internet-of Things (IoT), as well as technologies for intelligent computing, learning, Big Data and blockchain applications, addressing critical issues such as knowledge network, high performance, security, privacy, dependability, trustworthiness, and cost-effectiveness. |
Usenix ATC 2022 | Jul 11-13, 2022 | Carlsbad, CA | USENIX ATC brings together leading systems researchers for the presentation of cutting-edge systems research and the opportunity to gain insight into a wealth of must-know topics, including virtualization, system and network management and troubleshooting, cloud and edge computing, security, privacy, and trust, mobile and wireless, and more. |
Premier Summit on AI, Cloud & Automation | Jul 21-22, 2022 | London, UK | The Premier Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing & Automation provides a place for academics to exchange ideas on topics including future automation and artificial intelligence and how fast technology is changing our society. This conference is a must-attend for those in the retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and transport business sectors. |
SECtember | Sept 26-30, 2022 | Bellevue, WA | Brought to you by Cloud Security Alliance, SECtember provides a state-of-the-art perspective on the threat vectors and solutions for cybersecurity that now have a foundation of cloud computing. |
Google Cloud Next | Oct 11-13, 2022 | Virtual | Connect with experts, get inspired and expand your knowledge. Learn how the most successful companies transformed their business with Google Cloud. |
Cloud Expo Asia | Oct 12-13, 2022 | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore | The award-winning event connects technologists and business leaders with experts, solutions and services to help accelerate digital transformation plans. In 2019, 21,897 (BPA audited) technology buyers and influencers attended to be a part of this leading technology event in Asia, and we achieved the prestigious title of “Best International Show - Asia Pacific”, awarded by the AEO Excellence Awards. |
Cloud Expo Europe | November 2022/TBD | Paris Porte de Versailles, FR | Cloud Expo Europe is the leading event in France for technology professionals. Much like the London event, technologists worldwide flock to discuss the benefits of cloud migration and digital transformation. |
Cyber Security & Cloud Expo | November 2022 | Amsterdam, NL | If cloud cyber security is your area of interest, then you should not miss the Cybersecurity and Cloud Expo held annually. The conference brings together more than 5,000 people to focus on developing cutting edge technologies across Cyber Security, Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, AI and Big Data. |
AICCC | Dec 17-19, 2022 | Osaka, JP | 5th Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference (AICCC 2022) will be held in Osaka, Japan. This conference is meant for researchers from academia, industries and research & development organizations all over the globe interested in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing. |
Di Martino, Beniamino, Giuseppina Cretalla, and Antonio Esposito: Cloud Portability and Interoperability. Springer Briefs in Computer Science, 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-13701-8.
International Organization for Standards (ISO): ISO/IEC 19944-1:2020 Cloud computing and distributed platforms ─ Data flow, data categories and data use - Part 1: Fundamentals (for purchase)
Lawson, Angela, et al.: Beyond Theory: Getting Practical With Blockchain. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, February 2019, 27 pages.
Makhlouf, Rasha: Cloudy transaction costs: a dive into cloud computing economics. Journal of Cloud Computing, Vol. 9 (2020)
Discussion Forum
Next additions planned:
On 04 Sep 2018, Ram Marupudi (Southeastern Grocers) sent suggestions to have a top navigation section and social media links. Some of the suggestions do not need to be fully implemented here, as they are covered by the OMG's Cloud WG website, but they at least need links from the wiki to the full site (which is currently only referenced indirectly when talking about the existing papers and guides).