Interesting news announced by Joe Weinman's @ IEEE...
"The IEEE—”the world’s
largest professional association for the advancement of technology,”
and the one that standardized Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) and Wi-Fi (IEEE
802.11)—has brought together industry and academia to help develop
Intercloud standards as part of its Cloud Computing Initiative and today announced an effort intended to test those standards under real-world conditions.(Disclosure: I am the chairman of the IEEE Intercloud Testbed executive committee)"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joeweinman/2013/10/08/whats-next-for-the-cloud-the-intercloud-2/