ITU moves to develop cloud interoperability

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 09:26

The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Telecommunication Standardisation Advisory Group (TSAG) has set up a joint coordination activity on cloud computing to create a cloud computing ecosystem where interoperability facilitates secure information exchange across platforms.

The joint coordination activity on cloud computing (JCA-Cloud) will replace the ITU-T Focus Group on Cloud Computing (FG Cloud), set up in May 2010.

The ITU said: "The work of FG Cloud will now be progressed through a number of ITU Study Groups with the JCA acting as a mechanism to coordinate the many dimensions of the study of cloud computing'¦The primary objectives of JCA-Cloud will be to allocate FG Cloud's deliverables to study groups with associated domains of competence, and to ensure that the ITU-T standardisation work on cloud computing progresses in a well-coordinated manner across all the relevant study groups'¦

TSAG decided that ITU-T Study Group 13 be designated the lead study group on cloud computing.