Jacques Durand is a technical director at Fujitsu America Incorporated, with more than 20 years of experience in various areas of software. He evaluates and promotes XML-related and eBusiness standards and advises on their use in the enterprise software products at Fujitsu, while representing the company in various standards organizations such as OASIS, W3C, WS-I and other vertical standards consortia. He has a long-time interest in testing and has led several conformance and interoperability testing initiatives in OASIS: the Test Assertions Guideline standards, the Testing and Monitoring Internet Exchanges (TaMIE) committee, and ebXML testing. He is also active on the OASIS technical advisory board. In WS-I, he is currently co-editor of the Reliable Secure Profile and is leading the development of the new generation of testing tools for WS-I profiles. He has also been product architect in a BPM start-up company and an R&D engineer in a telecommunications company. His initial background is in rule engines.
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
In this article, we take a look at the basic interoperability requirements
when communicating with the Cloud, and in particular at techniques and
standards used to express and enforce wire-level contracts between
communicating parties, as these parties are increasingly also contracting
parties in a Cloud environment. Many standards already developed for Web
services and service-oriented architectures provide to the communicating
parties a good understanding and control of the expected quality of service
at the most basic level of the interaction.
Using Web Services in Cloud Computing is not a new idea. Some vendors of
Cloud platforms, which provide services necessary to run Cloud applications,
supply these as Web services, especially for management functions of the
Cloud (on the provider side) and for storage, versioning, upgrades, migrati... (more)
Jacques Durand is a technical director at Fujitsu America Incorporated, with more than 20 years of experience in various areas of software. He evaluates and promotes XML-related and eBusiness standards and advises on their use in the enterprise software products at Fujitsu, while representing the company in various standards organizations such as OASIS, W3C, WS-I and other vertical standards consortia. He has a long-time interest in testing and has led several conformance and interoperability testing initiatives in OASIS: the Test Assertions Guideline standards, the Testing and Monitoring Internet Exchanges (TaMIE) committee, and ebXML testing. He is also active on the OASIS technical advisory board. In WS-I, he is currently co-editor of the Reliable Secure Profile and is leading the development of the new generation of testing tools for WS-I profiles. He has also been product architect in a BPM start-up company and an R&D engineer in a telecommunications company. His initial background is in rule engines. 
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