Standards

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)

The Reservoir project – Clouds Interoperability       Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers is an European Union FP7 funded project that will enable massive scale deployment and management of complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies. The project will provide a foundation for a service-based online economy, where – using virtualization technologies – resources and services are transparently provisioned and managed on an on-demand basis at competitive costs with high quality of service.

3Tera “Open Cloud”

Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

BitTorrent (protocol)

SOAP

Representational state transfer (REST)

Cloud Nine: Specification for a Cloud Computer. A Call to Action.