Prospect and Purpose of Cloud Business Alliance

Background

Various concepts of clouds/cloud services appeared, and various services began to be developed. But, the advantage that cloud service brings is not understood easily for users. CBA think that the following problems are here.

• There is no de facto standard for connecting SaaS, PaaS and IaaS mutually.
• Neither a concrete method nor the method for construction to achieve an advantage of cloud (elasticity and cost optimization) exist.

Motivation

CBA contributes to the profit of the user and the service provider by establishing below.

• Interconnectivity between various cloud services
• Business model on interconnected cloud services
• De-facto standard on interconnected cloud services

Purpose

CBA sets the following as the activity purpose.

• Evaluation, development, and technological information publication of cloud API that connect various cloud services.
• Evaluation, development, and information publication of cloud service models (service model and billing method, etc.)

Goal

CBA believes the following two points to be a goal.

• Expansion of an open cloud service business in a Japanese ICT market
• Creation of the true value of the cloud computing in order to contribute to cloud users and cloud service providers

Organization of Cloud Business Alliance

Chairman of Cloud Business Alliance

Osamu Sawada (Net One Systems)

Activities

• Open Cloud Technology Activity

Contact

• Office:
  Net One Systems, JP Tower, 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
• Web Site:
  (japanese) http://www.cloud-business.jp/
  (english) http://www.cloud-business.jp/indexen.html
• EMail:
  info at cloud-business.jp

Members

274 companies (May 2013)

Members by Layer(2012-3Q stat)

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