Cloud computing

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3508 provides an overview and high-level requirements for distributed cloud. This Recommendation introduces the concept of the distributed cloud and identifies the characteristics of distributed cloud. Based on concept and characteristics, configuration models are illustrated. Deployment considerations of distributed cloud are provided in perspective of infrastructure, network, service, management and security. From use cases, high-level requirements of the distributed cloud are derived.

This Recommendation describes functional architecture for cloud service brokerage (CSB). To provide the functional architecture for CSB, the CSB functions based on configurations which have been identified in [ITU-T Y.3506] are introduced. This Recommendation also provides the relationship between the CSB functional architecture and the cloud computing reference architecture in [ITU-T Y.3502].

This Supplement provides a summary of cloud-computing-related deliverables in ITU-T study groups (SGs) and other standards development organisations (SDOs). Also, this supplement provides a common matrix for mapping these deliverables to different cloud-related categories. With the common matrix, this supplement provides analysis for cloud-computing-related deliverables in ITU-T SGs and other SDOs.

Recommendation ITU-T F.743.8 specifies the requirements for a cloud computing platform supporting visual surveillance. Cloud computing is an emerging technology aimed at providing various computing services over the Internet. Using virtualization technology, a cloud computing platform realizes a ubiquitous and flexible shared resources pool that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service-provider interaction based on the needs of users. By using the cloud computing technology, the visual surveillance system can conveniently manage various functional components and services, such as video distribution, video transcoding and intelligent video processing. This Recommendation provides the application scenarios and requirements for a cloud computing platform supporting a visual surveillance system.

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3600 provides requirements, capabilities and use cases of cloud computing based big data as well as its system context. Cloud computing based big data provides the capabilities to collect, store, analyse, visualize and manage varieties of large volume datasets, which cannot be rapidly transferred and analysed using traditional technologies.

Recommendation ITU-T F.743.2 defines the cloud storage service requirements in visual surveillance. Cloud storage enables service users to have ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable storage resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service-provider interaction. Cloud storage can realize flexible and reliable data storage for large-scale visual surveillance, and its components are modularized and allocated dynamically based on real usage. This Recommendation provides the application scenarios and requirements for cloud storage in visual surveillance.

Recommendation ITU-T H.626.2 defines a cloud storage architecture in visual surveillance. Cloud storage enables the service users to have ubiquitous, convenient and on-demand network access to a shared pool of the configurable storage resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with the minimal management effort or service-provider interaction. Cloud storage can realize flexible and reliable data storage for large-scale visual surveillance and its components are modularized and allocated dynamically based on the real usage. This Recommendation provides the architecture, entities, reference points and service control flow for cloud storage in visual surveillance.

Recommendation ITU-T X.1631 | ISO/IEC 27017 provides guidelines for information security controls applicable to the provision and use of cloud services by providing:

• additional implementation guidance for relevant controls specified in ISO/IEC 27002;
• additional controls with implementation guidance that specifically relate to cloud services.

This Recommendation | International Standard provides controls and implementation guidance for both cloud service providers and cloud service customers.

This Recommendation provides functional framework and requirements for cloud computing maturity. It introduces the overview of cloud computing maturity and identifies the cloud computing maturity model including cloud customer management module, cloud resource management module, cloud service management module and cloud security management module. Additionally, this Recommendation provides cloud computing maturity requirements derived from use cases.

This Recommendation specifies the overview and requirements of containers. The scope of this recommendation includes: " Overview of container concept including characteristics, Comparison between containers and VM, and Relationship between containers and VM; " Requirements of containers ; " Use cases of containers.

This document proposes a framework that identifies and characterizes the information and relationships needed to describe and measure properties of cloud services that are representative, accurate and reproducible. This information can be used in a variety of ways including, collection, comparison, gap analysis, and assessment or description of metrics at the technical or business levels. These metrics can connect information intended for decision-making, for the service agreements between provider and customer, for the runtime performance measurement and the underlying properties within the provider’s system.

The purpose of the guide is to discuss the security concerns associated with full virtualization technologies for server and desktop virtualization, and to provide recommendations for addressing these concerns. All forms of virtualization other than server and desktop full virtualization are outside the scope of this document.
 
Most existing recommended security practices remain applicable in virtual environments. The practices described in this document build on and assume the implementation of practices described in other NIST publications.