Foundations and Technological Landscape of Cloud Computing

Table 1

Cloud computing reference models.

Name	Objective	Key components	References
Distributed management task force	To achieve interoperability	Actors, service interfaces, and profile	[14]
IBM	General purpose	Actors and roles, cloud services, and management activities to support business-related services and technical-related services	[15]
Cloud security alliance	Security assessment	Stack model, cloud services	[16]
Cisco	General purpose	Stack model for service composition	[17]
Open security architecture	Security assessment	Actors, flow of traffic and information in the cloud, security policy implemented by each actors, and servers to secure cloud operations	[18]
Federal cloud computing initiative	Standard for government clouds	Stack model representing cloud core capabilities and their associated management domain, actors, and cloud services	[19]
Cloud data management interfaces	Standard interfaces for cloud storage	Interfaces to data storage and associated metadata	[20]
Cloud ontology	General purpose	Stack model representing basic cloud resources and services	[21]
Cloud computing open architecture	Open standard and cloud ecosystem	Stack model integrating cloud virtual resources, common reusable services, core services, offerings, unified architecture interfaces, quality and governance, and ecosystem management	[22]