Cerf Makes The Case For Inter-Cloud Computing Standards

Vint Cerf, "the father of the Internet" and today an executive at Google, recently argued "the need for data portability standards for cloud computing" at a presentation to members of the Churchill Club. InfoWorld's Paul Krill covered the event and wrote a nice summary of Cerf's views and desire to see standards for moving data between cloud computing providers,as well as, emphasizing the need for improved cloud security.

According to the article, Cerf explained:

"People are going to want to move data around, they're going to want to ask clouds to do things for them," said Cerf. They might even want to have multiple clouds interact with each other in order to take advantage of the computing power offered through such combinations, he said.

"There's a whole raft of research work still to be done and protocols to be designed and standards to be adopted that will allow people to manage assets" in clouds, Cerf said. Google, for its part, is resonant with this notion, he said. But right now, users can get data out of the Google cloud but perhaps not send it to another cloud.

You can read the full article here.