These documents, along with others from NIST and NIST working groups, will be incorporated into the NIST U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, expected to be published in November, 2011.

Meanwhile, the agency also unveiled the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture, a 35-page guide to vendor-neutral cloud design which agencies can use to determine their route to the cloud.

NIST has published the final version of the US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Volumes I and II. The roadmap focuses on strategic and tactical objectives to support the federal ...

NIST has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture and taxonomy. Together, the documents ...

The second volume outlines a conceptual model, the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture and Taxonomy, and presents use cases. Editorial standards. Show Comments ...

This second white paper in a series on Cloud Computing Reference Architecture focuses on the activities, processes, and requirements that cloud players need to follow in order to ensure a ...

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released for public comment a draft "roadmap" that is designed to foster federal agencies' adoption of ...

NIST has made two components of the cloud computing technology roadmap, the reference architecture and standards roadmap, available on its cloud computing public web site. NIST also previously ...

Recently updated research from NIST helps CIOs cut through the fear, uncertainty, and doubt of vendor hype about cloud computing.

Guidelines and standards such as the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cloud Computing Security Reference ...

This white paper examines the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture in a two-part series. The first part covers the cloud players and their roles and responsibilities.