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NIST-SP 500-291, NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap

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Author(s)

Michael D. Hogan, Fang Liu, Annie W. Sokol, Tong Jin

Abstract

The NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap Working Group has surveyed the existing standards landscape for security, portability, and interoperability standards/models/studies/use cases, etc., relevant to cloud computing. Using this available information, current standards, standards gaps, and standardization priorities are identified in this document. The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing identified cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 500-291
Report Number
500-291
NIST Pub Series
Special Publication (NIST SP)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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Keywords

Cloud computing, standards
Information technology and Computational science

Citation

Hogan, M. , Liu, F. , Sokol, A. and Jin, T. (2011), NIST-SP 500-291, NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=909024 (Accessed October 2, 2025)

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Created August 10, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017
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