Standards Repository

Cloud Working Group

The OMG Cloud Working Group publishes vendor-neutral guidance on important considerations for cloud computing adoption, highlighting standards, opportunities for standardization, cloud customer req

Practical Guide to Cloud Governance

The objective of this Guide is to help cloud adopters put in place the framework, policies, roles and responsibilities required to ensure success.
 

Best Practices for Developing and Growing a Cloud-Enabled Workforce

The aim of this guide is to provide a practical reference to assist enterprise Information Technology (IT) managers and business decision makers with best practices for developing and growing a “cl

Cloud Customer Architecture for API Management

Cloud Customer Architecture for API Management is an introduction to API Management and the architecture elements of an effective API Management Platform.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics V2.0

Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics describes the architectural elements and cloud components needed to build out big data and analytics solutions.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics V2.0

Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics describes the architectural elements and cloud components needed to build out big data and analytics solutions.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for Blockchain

Blockchain technology has the potential to have a major impact on how institutions process transactions and conduct business.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for Blockchain

Blockchain technology has the potential to have a major impact on how institutions process transactions and conduct business.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for e-Commerce

Cloud Customer Architecture for e-Commerce describes how to support e-Commerce solutions using cloud computing.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration

Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration describes how to leverage social collaboration tools to harness ideas, exchange information, and increase the speed of innovation acr

Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration

Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration describes how to leverage social collaboration tools to harness ideas, exchange information, and increase the speed of innovation acr

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration introduces a core reference architecture and key concepts for hybrid integration in the enterprise.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration introduces a core reference architecture and key concepts for hybrid integration in the enterprise.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for IoT

Cloud Customer Architecture for IoT is a reference architecture for supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) using cloud computing.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for Mobile

Cloud Customer Architecture for Mobile describes vendor-neutral best practices for hosting the services and components required to support mobile apps using cloud computing.
 

Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads on Cloud Services

Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads on Cloud Services was written as practical reference to help IT architects and IT security professionals architect, install, and operate the infor

Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads on Cloud Services

Cloud Customer Architecture for Securing Workloads on Cloud Services was written as practical reference to help IT architects and IT security professionals architect, install, and operate the infor

Cloud Customer Architecture for Web Application Hosting

Cloud Customer Architecture for Web Application Hosting describes vendor-neutral best practices for hosting web applications using cloud computing.

Cloud Security Standards: What to Expect and What to Negotiate V2.0

Cloud Security Standards: What to Expect and What to Negotiate is a guide to security standards, frameworks, and certifications that exist for cloud computing.

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success is a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze and consider the impl

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success is a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze and consider the impl

Data Residency Challenges

As data is increasingly accessed and shared across geographic boundaries, a growing web of conflicting laws and regulations dictate where data can be transferred, stored, and shared, and how it is

Hybrid Cloud Considerations for Big Data and Analytics

Hybrid Cloud Considerations for Big Data and Analytics is a companion guide to the CSCC's Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics.
 

Impact of Cloud Computing on Healthcare V2.0

The Impact of Cloud Computing on Healthcare was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers of the healthcare industry as they analyze and consider the impli

Interoperability and Portability for Cloud Computing: A Guide V2.0

Interoperability and Portability for Cloud Computing: A Guide was written to provide a clear definition of interoperability and portability and how these concepts relate to various aspects of cloud

Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Services: Roadmap for Success V2.0

Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Services: Roadmap for Success was written to provide a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze

Migrating Applications to the Cloud: Assessing Performance and Response Time Requirements

Migrating Applications to the Cloud: Assessing Performance and Response Time Requirements is a supplement to the CSCC paper, Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Services: Roadmap for Success.

Practical Guide to Cloud Computing V3.0

The Practical Guide to Cloud Computing was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers adopt cloud computing to solve business challenges.
 

Practical Guide to Cloud Deployment Technologies

The objective of this guide is to define and position the cloud technologies that can be used to deploy cloud-based applications and services, and clarify how they differ in their implementation an

Practical Guide to Cloud Management Platforms

The Practical Guide to Cloud Management Platforms was written to help enterprise Information Technology (IT) managers, business decision makers, system operations staff, application architects and

Practical Guide to Cloud Service Agreements V3.0

The Practical Guide to Cloud Service Agreements was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze cloud service agreements (CSAs) from different cloud

Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing

The Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) managers, business decision makers, application architects and application developers unders

Practical Guide to Platform-as-a-Service

The Practical Guide to Platform-as-a-Service was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) managers, business decision makers, application architects and application developers underst

Public Cloud Service Agreements: What to Expect and What to Negotiate V2.0

Public Cloud Service Agreements: What to Expect and What to Negotiate was written to help cloud customers understand and evaluate public cloud service agreements (CSAs) from different providers.

Security for Cloud Computing: 10 Steps to Ensure Success V3.0

Security for Cloud Computing: 10 Steps to Ensure Success provides a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze the security implications