The European Commission announced that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released a report entitled “Cloud Standards Coordination.”   The report provides the following:

• A definition of the key roles in cloud computing and an illustrative diagram of the roles played by the Cloud Service Customer, Cloud Service Provider and Cloud Service Partner.
• An analysis and classification of more than 100 cloud computing use cases across three phases, including acquisition, operation and termination of cloud services.
• A list of more than 20 relevant organizations involved in cloud computing standardization, including, for example, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, the International Organization for Standardization, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• A map of core cloud computing documents including a selection of more than 150 resource documents, such as standards and specifications, as well as reports and white papers related to different activities to be undertaken by Cloud Service Customers and Cloud Service Providers over the cloud service life-cycle.

This is certainly not new information, but helpful to promote the use of cloud computing in Europe.  Since the NSA scandal, European companies have been skeptical of public cloud platforms.  Having access to the information in this report is a step in the right direction to better understanding the value of cloud computing.