This is an initiative supported by hundreds of companies
that aims to discuss with cloud organizations a way to produce open standards for cloud
computing. Their major doctrines are collaboration and coordination of efforts on the
standardization, adoption of open standards wherever appropriate, and the development
of standards based on customer requirements. Participants of the Open Cloud Manifesto
through the Cloud Computing Use Case group produced an interesting white paper
[OpenCloud 2010] highlighting the requirements that need to be standardized in a cloud
environment to ensure interoperability in the most typical scenarios of interaction – Use
Cases – in cloud computing.