CSCC Deliverables:  

• Public Cloud Service Agreements: What to Expect and What to Negotiate - This paper provides cloud consumers with a pragmatic approach to understand and evaluate public cloud service agreements. The recommendations in this paper are based on a thorough assessment of publicly available agreements from several leading public cloud providers. In addition to this paper, a great deal of research and analysis regarding the landscape of cloud service agreements is available in the CSCC companion paper, the “Practical Guide to Cloud Service Level Agreements”
  
  
• Impact of Cloud Computing on Healthcare - The "Impact of Cloud Computing on Healthcare" whitepaper provides a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers as they analyze and consider the implications of cloud computing on their business. The paper includes guidance and strategies, designed to help these decision makers evaluate and compare cloud computing offerings in key areas from different cloud providers, taking into account different requirements from various actors including medical practices, hospitals, research facilities, insurance companies and governments.
   
• The CSCC Practical Guide to Cloud Computing - The Practical Guide to Cloud Computing consists of a set of guidelines, and strategies to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers in all major activities related to implementing cloud solutions.
  
  
• The CSCC Practical Guide to Cloud Service Level Agreements - The Guide highlights the critical elements of a service level agreement (SLA) for cloud computing and provides guidance on what to expect and what to be aware of when negotiating an SLA. The guide articulates a set of requirements from a consumer's perspective and identifies elements that need to be addressed via open standards through CSCC's liaison partnerships with key standards development organizations.
  
  
• Security for Cloud Computing: 10 Steps to Ensure Success - The Security for Cloud Computing white paper provides a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers as they analyze and consider the security implications of cloud computing on their business. The paper includes a list of steps, along with guidance and strategies, designed to help these decision makers evaluate and compare security offerings in key areas from different cloud providers. The paper discusses the threats, technology risks, and safeguards for cloud computing environments, and provides the insight needed to make informed IT decisions on their treatment.
   

Case Studies:

• Cloud Use Cases - Moving to the Cloud - This paper, written by the Cloud Computing Use Cases Group, covers the issues customers should consider as they move their data and applications into the cloud.
• Cloud Computing Use Cases - This paper, also written by the Cloud Computing Use Cases Group, covers a wide range of use cases and requirements for open cloud computing. The current version of the paper (Version 4) covers requirements for Service Level Agreements, Security, and Developer Requirements for the cloud.
• The NIST Cloud Computing Business Use Cases Working Group - A group led by NIST to discuss cloud computing use cases for government agencies. This work is part of the NIST Standards Roadmap project.
• NIST Cloud Computing Use Cases - A set of cloud computing use cases from the SAJACC (Standards Acceleration to Jumpstart Adoption of Cloud Computing) project.
• Seize the Cloud - A white paper from Sogeti that includes a number of case studies.
• The Transformation of Education through State Education Clouds - A paper written by IBM and researchers from several universities throughout the Southeastern United States. The paper details the accomplishments of the Virtual Computing Lab team as they delivered greater services to a wider audience at a lower cost than ever before.
• IBM Study: Midsize Businesses Increasing IT Budgets; Investing in Analytics and Cloud Computing - An IBM case study describing the investments midsize companies are making in cloud technologies.
• Strengthening your Business Case for Using Cloud - A set of proven business use cases and analyses from The Open Group

OMG is continuing to seek out best practices and case studies to be included here. Please contribute your case study recommendations to info@cloud-council.org.

Use Cases:

• CSCC Use Case White Paper
  
  
• View list of use cases
• Submit your use case
   

Webinars On Demand:

• The Public Cloud Service Agreements: What to Expect and What to Negotiate
  
  
• The OpenStack Foundation
  Presentation by Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director at the OpenStack Foundation
   
• The State of Cloud Standards
  This roundtable was part of the BrightTALK™ Cloud Infrastructure Summit a free online event running live throughout the day on February 9th. If you can't attend live, all of the webinars and videos will also be available afterward on demand. You can attend all the sessions online from the convenience of your desk.
   
• CSCC Virtual Meeting (Recording)
  Government WG Presentation and Public Sector Cloud Summit Overview, DevOps Presentation, Igloo Collaboration Tool Training
   
• CSCC Virtual Meeting (Recording) 
  Security WG Presenation, DMTF Presentation, Igloo Software Overview
   
• Security WG Presentation (PDF)
   
• DMTF Presentation (PDF)
   
• F2F Quarterly Meeting in Santa Clara, CA
   
• Practical Guide Webinar
   
•  F2F Quarterly Meeting in Orlando, Florida
   
• Virtual Meeting
   
• Virtual Meeting Minutes  

Blog:

• Cloud, Cloud, Everywhere (and not a drop to drink)
  05/02/2011