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27th - 28th

February 2013

The International Auditorium

Brussels, Belgium

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Testimonials

  • Bernd Becker

    “Cloudscape IV brought interesting networking opportunities”.

    Bernd Becker, EuroCloud

  • Alan Sill

    "Cloudscape V offers an excellent platform to showcase the commitment to standards development with contributions from many different communities. This series of conferences has been instrumental in demonstrating the effectiveness of the standards process through a coordinated approach by mobilising the international community.”

    Alan Sill, OGF

  • David Bernstein

    "Cloudscape has been an important catalyst and anchor event for our European activities around Cloud Computing standards. Nowhere else is there a gathering of standards organizations, representatives from Government, and the Research Community".

    David Bernstein, Cloud Strategy Partners & IEEE

  • Steven Newhouse

    "The Cloudscape meetings bring together representatives of the European and International Cloud Computing community from the standards bodies, public and private sector providers, policy makers and users from all sectors. They are an excellent venue for information exchange and networking".

    Steven Newhouse, EGI

  • Vangelis Floros

    “Cloudscape workshops have helped increase my personal awareness of standards and interoperability initiatives and share these insights with projects that I’m involved in, like StratusLab. The Cloudscape events therefore remain very relevant to our work. We will be happy to continue contributing to them in the future”.

    Vangelis Floros, GRNET & StratusLab project

  • Daniele Catteddu

    “The February time-frame for the Cloudscape workshop series is perfect with a focus on standards & best practices as the event’s value-add. I would like to continue my involvement in it as both an individual and representative of the Cloud Security Alliance”.

    Daniele Catteddu, Cloud Security Alliance

  • Markus Pleier

    “The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is absolutely interested in taking part in Cloudscape V – 2013 and beyond”.

    Markus Pleier, SNIA & EMC

  • Ignacio M. Llorente

    “The Cloudscape workshop series has become the forum for fostering closer coordination between standards groups in the cloud computing arena and exploring how standards are implemented in government and research settings”.

    Ignacio M. Llorente, OpenNebula

  • Philippe Massonet

    “Thank you for the opportunity to talk about our work at Cloudscape IV. We are definitely interested in pursuing ways in which we can support future workshops”.

    Philippe Massonet, CETIC

  • Elmar Hussman

    “Cloudscape IV was a very valuable event. I will be sharing the takeaways with partners in TClouds. We look forward to taking part in future events”.

    Elmar Hussman, IBM

  • Maryline Engert

    “Cloudscape IV was a very well organised and interesting event. It was a pleasure to take an active part”.

    Maryline Lengert, ESRIN

  • Joe Baguley

    “Cloudscape IV offered an opportunity for continued engagement on advances in cloud computing. I look forward to supporting future workshops”.

    Joe Baguley, VMware

  • Ignacio Blanquer

    “My involvement in Cloudscape workshops over the past three years has increased my interest in them and led me to appreciate their value-add more and more. As always, Cloudscape IV was perfectly organised and attracted an excellent line-up of speakers”.

    Ignacio Blanquer, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

  • John Borras

    “Cloudscape IV was highly successful thanks to the dedicated efforts of the SIENA Consortium”.

    John Borras, Independent Consultant

  • Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville

    “Cloudscape IV offered an excellent opportunity to share information on cloud initiatives in Brazil, Europe and other world regions”.

    Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

  • Dennis Gannon

    “Cloudscape has become a critical venue for the discussion of the policy issues and research opportunities that cloud computing presents.  Microsoft is pleased to participate and to be a sponsor.”

    Dennis Gannon, Microsoft

  • Dimosthenis Kyriazis

    “Cloudscape IV is a valuable event for VISION cloud. We definitely aim to take part in future Cloudscape workshops”.

    Dimosthenis Kyriazis, National Technical University of Athens & VISION Cloud project

  • Pasquale Pagano

    “Cloudscape definitely features in my top 10 workshops taking place annually. It's a great place for understanding new advances and promoting standards among all the different stakeholders, counting global participation.”

    Pasquale Pagano, ISTI-CNR, Italy

  • Marco Carugi

    "I found Cloudscape IV extremely useful, especially the updates on the scientific community involved in the cloud. I would like to congratulate you as organisers on the very interesting programme and impressive line-up of speakers".

    Marco Carugi, ZTE Corporation & ITU

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Standards Development Organisations
The Cloudscape Series has a long connection with Standards Development Organisations who have participated actively in our events. The following organisations are attending Cloudscape V.


The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders.
The Cloud Security Alliance - CSA launched the OCF (Open Certification Framework) initiative in May 2012 with the aim of providing Cloud users with simple and standard ways to evaluate cloud provider resilience, data protection capabilities and service portability. The OCF is based on a 3 levels structure: level 1 is a self assessment based certification, level 2 is a certification based on a third party assessment that builds on ISO 27001 and it is integrated by the a set of cloud specific controls derived from Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix. Level 3 is a certification based on continuous monitoring based evidences (based on Cloud Security Alliance GRC Stack). Cloud Security Alliance has established a partnership with the British Standard Institution (BSI) for the development of OCF Level 2; this certification is called STAR Certification.


With this deep and broad reach, DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) creates standards that enable interoperable IT management. DMTF management standards are critical to enabling management interoperability among multi-vendor systems, tools and solutions within the enterprise. DMTF's Cloud Management Initiative is focused on developing interoperable cloud infrastructure management standards and promoting adoption of those standards in the industry. The work of DMTF working groups promoted by the Cloud Management Initiative is focused on achieving interoperable cloud infrastructure management between cloud service providers and their consumers and developers.


The IEEE-SA is a leading consensus building organization that nurtures, develops and advances global technologies. Our standards drive the functionality, capabilities and interoperability of a wide range of products and services that transform the way people live, work and communicate.
 

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for security, Cloud computing, SOA, Web services, the Smart Grid, electronic publishing, emergency management, and other areas. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology.


OGF (Open Grid Forum)  is an open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing. Applied Distributed Computing is critical to developing new, innovative and scalable applications and infrastructures that are essential to productivity in the enterprise and within the science community. The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) – developed by OGF, describes application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable cloud providers to expose their services. It focuses on IaaS based clouds and allows the deployment, monitoring and management of virtual workloads (like virtual machines), but is applicable to any interaction with a virtual cloud resource through defined http(s) header fields and extensions. While there are several open-source implementations, OCCI has not yet been widely adopted in commercial platforms.


As a not-for-profit association, the SNIA (The Storage Networking Industry Association) enables our members to develop robust solutions for storing and managing the massive volumes of information generated by today’s businesses. For more than a decade we have worked to bring recognition of storage issues to the IT world, making storage less complicated for the end user. As a result, the SNIA has adopted the role of industry catalyst for the development of storage solution specifications and technologies, global standards, and storage education.