R2AD is working on a new Cloud Specification through the OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) Technical Committee. CAMP shall define models and protocols in support of the management of cloud applications in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) model.

The charter for the committee is available and the first Face 2 Face has just occurred in Santa Clara, CA. Meetings are being held weekly with strong support from a number of companies. See the announcement for more information.
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R2AD was proud to sponsor and support the Federation of Galaxy Explorers (FOGE) at the annual Galaxy Ball.

FOGE is a nonprofit organization that promotes the exploration of science and technology to students of all ages. Schools and organizations from all over the country have set up Mission Teams to inspire kids to learn more about space science, engineering, Earth science, rocketry and space citizenship.

R2AD would like to thank all the R2AD employees for their support of this event and the Space Education goals of FOGE. Volunteering is a great way to participate and help the advancement of space education.
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Cloud DC - PaaS

Both OpenShift and Cloud Foundry offer an open source implementation of Platform as a Service (see slides: http://tinyurl.com/osspaas)

I attended the 10 May 2012 Cloud DC users group. Red Hat was there presenting OpenShift. After the hour long talk, I went home, and in 20 minutes created an OpenShift account (http://openshift.com) and created a site that uses JBoss as a web server and then updated the content using git (a repository management tool) with some code (under development for a new web widget we are working on) and published the application. Nice and fast! If you use the "-s" option via the command line mode, it will also engage a HAProxy component and auto-scale up and down.

Both OpenShift and Cloud Foundry are great examples of what can be accomplished with an on-premise private cloud. OpenShift just last Monday open-sourced their code.
Cloud Foundry is already open source. - Good Times

Open Grid Forum - Oxford, UK

R2AD represented DISA at the OGF-34 event which was held in Oxford, UK. Overall, the conference proved a good exchange of information between the various working groups as well as between standards organizations that were in attendance (i.e.: DMTF and EGI). R2AD presented the PaaS slides to the OCCI working group.

The OCCI WG will be taking up PaaS standardization after the work on the JSON rendering is complete. The Cloud Interoperability BoF was very interesting and they will form a working group to establish profiles for interoperability. CompatibleOne also presented it's open source cloud broker to the OCCI working group. CompatibleOne uses OCCI in a fascinating way...check it out!