Cloud Industry Forum

Facilitating consistent management across compute resources in the data center and in private, public or hybrid clouds is critical to the industry's success. The Cloud Industry Forum will help build trust with customers looking for secure, stable, and effective cloud computing solutions so that they can monitor and manage service delivery with confidence. The Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice initiative is a fundamental step to encourage transparency and best practices in cloud computing.

Kate Craig-Wood, Managing Director, Memset

Cloud computing presents end users with the opportunity to do more with less, however there is still work to be done in driving trust in cloud based services. We fully support CIF’s messaging, which is to assist business users in identifying and investing in secure, reliable services, and our company values go hand-in-hand with this aim. CIF educates the end user on how to identify the most suitable and cost-effective services for them and we in turn endeavour to provide our customers with low-cost, high-quality services.

Bryan Jones, Executive Director, Public and Large Enterprise, Dell EMEA

Like with any traditional technology, customers expect the cloud to demonstrate transparency, capability and accountability, and we are confident that our robust and specialised solutions offer the stability needed to encourage businesses to work closely with cloud service providers to become more efficient.

We fully support CIF’s goal, which is to assist business users in identifying and investing in secure and robust Cloud services. We have been focused on delivering innovative new technology to provide secure search for the cloud, so we are aware of the importance of best practice in this sector. We understand the value of Cloud Industry Forum’s messaging and we are delighted to be joining them in championing their Code of Practice.

Intellect, the UK High Tech Trade Association, welcomes the introduction of the Cloud Industry Forum, which addresses the need for Cloud Service Providers to establish themselves as responsible organisations offering services to customers at all levels in the UK. The idea of providing assured business information to equip customers will provide a valuable extra check to support the selection of suppliers and encourage the wider adoption of proven services. Thus bringing added value to all players in this fast growing marketplace.

We recognise CIF’s Code of Practice as an important part of industry self-regulation and are delighted to work with CIF to encourage and achieve best practice.

Cloud computing is the future of computing and is rapidly becoming fully mainstream. The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) and its code of practice will help ensure that the highest standards are maintained. As well as ensuring CIF members are appropriately skilled and regularly assessed, businesses will appreciate the peace of mind as well as a clearly defined industry standard with which they can assess their suppliers, and undertake Cloud implementations with the highest confidence and trust. Outsourcery fully endorses the principles of CIF and is proud to be a founding member.

The traditional model of delivering software and it services has gone beyond the on-premise model. Our industry has changed as has the market. As we move towards a new business model end users need the confidence that only an authoritative code of practice can bring.

Michael McCloskey - CEO - FrontRange Solutions

We believe that joining the Cloud Industry Forum shows FrontRange Solutions' commitment to delivering best-in-class Software as a Service solutions as well as working with a wide variety of partners to drive awareness, adoption and best practice in managing cloud-based services and solutions

Organisations seeking to use cloud services need a straightforward form of certification or 'code of practice' for potential suppliers that will accurately define the services offered, standards of operation and security

Martin O’Donnell, Managed Hosting Services & Cloud Services Director, ICM

The rapid adoption of cloud computing has seen cloud-based services become a central part of business strategy, with its ability to deliver flexibility and drive down cost being two of the main benefits for end users. This partnership further reflects our commitment to the cloud and more importantly our cloud-based customers.

Phil Wainewright - President - Eurocloud

The CIF Code helps further EuroCloud's strategy to develop an industry-wide framework for customer confidence in the quality and integrity of cloud delivered services.

As an industry we must build trust with customers ensuring they can rely on secure, stable, and effective cloud computing solutions. It's about helping users make decisions about which model is best for them and giving them security in the choices they make

It is essential that all major stakeholders in the cloud industry ecosystem participate in the cloud industry forum to build trust in the industry as a whole.

Matt Sanderson, UK Managing Director, Ingram

Whilst we will take the lead on this market activity we equally recognise that the Cloud Industry Forum has been leading the charge for better practice and transparency in the Cloud. Its Code of Practice is a ground breaking initiative offering end users the transparency and security they need in taking the decision to migrate to the cloud, and an initiative such is this is something we can support and reflects our values and commitment.

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The Cloud Industry Forum is committed to a number of interdependent goals as follows:

To provide a valuable Membership led organisation that champions the development of the Cloud Services Market on a fair and transparent basis in the UK and internationally.
To provide an independent, expert opinion on behalf of the Cloud Service Providers and online organisations in order to drive a fair and professional marketplace.
To lobby Government, industry bodies, press and vendors on issues that unfairly hold back the professional development of the industry within the UK.
To develop and sustain a credible and certifiable Code of Practice for the Cloud Industry.
To encourage the widespread adoption of the Code of Practice by industry players.
To leverage the Code of Practice through international affiliations and partnerships.

In order to achieve these goals we are proud to work with our alliance partners to further expand our frame of reference and align our message and actions. Our key Alliance Partners are:

Business Application Software Developers' Association, is a member-driven organisation where members benefit by sharing knowledge and expertise, and working effectively as one voice to address strategic issues and evolving legal, political and technical influences that affect the business software industry.

BASDA galvanises its members to work as an industry, through its members and their Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The Cloud Computing SIG was established to raise the profile of business Cloud computing applications, exploring ideas around standards and best practice and producing deliverables that benefit both members, partners and end users.

The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, visit our website, or follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.

EuroCloud (www.eurocloud.org) is the first pan-European network of SaaS and cloud computing vendors and industry experts, with a presence today in more than 24 European countries.

EuroCloud UK (www.eurocloud.org.uk) brings together companies engaged in cloud computing or SaaS-related business activity to network together, share best practice and build the profile of the industry. The EuroCloud UK Board includes members from C Infinity, CohesiveFT, D2C, Mimecast, RightNow, Salesforce.com, SAP, Webroot, Zylog Systems and Procullux Ventures.

The UK IT Association provides business promotion, tenders and lead generation, member-to-member collaboration and quality leadership for SME companies in the IT, internet and digital media industries. We are a not-for-profit organisation funded through membership and we have excellent links with universities, local authorities and IT groups throughout the UK

Our other mission to provide best practice and technology leadership to SME customers who purchase IT products and services. We do this by promoting accreditations and codes of practice as the starting point when creating a procurement shortlist – further information at The Good IT Guide www.thegooditguide.co.uk , UKITA www.ukita.co.uk or the Digital Nation www.digitalnation.org.uk websites and through Twitter @UKITA_UK

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