CommLedgeJust to keep track of things of the past
ICT is such a fast moving domain
Cloud Computing as a technical domain is vast and complex. The variety of the stakeholders (users, customers, service providers, vendors, regulators, etc.) makes it even more difficult to identify the major issues. An understanding of the usages and the possible use cases (in particular those that can be monetised) is one way to draw the bigger picture.
Our overall approach is, at this point of the development of the Cloud Computing, to focus on the following aspects: Use cases, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Security and compliance, Network Virtualisation, Interplay of standards and open source.
There is no doubt that Intellectual Property is a key element of the way today's business models and technical systems are defined. As one example, the ability to be granted the right to license a competitor's technology (or the other way round) is essential to a competitive market.
So, the way the Intellectual Property system is set-up and its influence on the Standards development is an area of strong debates and off great interest.
So, the way the Intellectual Property system is set-up and its influence on the Standards development is an area of strong debates and off great interest.
Electrical networks are complex systems. They are even termed as "systems of systems", thus indicating a particularly high level of complexity. To allow such systems to function, many standards are needed. The focus of Smart Grid is on "clever" communication: the first target is interoperability, the capacity of a product or system, whose interfaces are fully known, to work with other (existing or future) products or systems.
Indeed, interworking of two parts of a system can only be achieved if the participants (mainly systems or subsystems) are fully informed about the terms of interoperability: the nature of the exchanged flows, the interface description, etc.