Bridging the interoperability gap for Cloud Computing

Analyst reaction to Vordel's Cloud Edition Gateway:

Phil Schacter, Vice President and Service Director with Burton Group said "The cloud services market is immature with few standards on how customers establish and control access by their users, and how providers protect information and report activity back to the customer. The concept of an enterprise gateway that connects to all internal and public cloud services accessed by various departments and users is an important innovation that allows a focal point for enforcing policy and auditing usage of services, and that is independent and transparent to specific cloud providers."
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This is the key - an enterprise gateway being the focal point for enforcing policy and auditing usage of services (or "container" in the terminology proposed by Gunnar Peterson) . And it is another kind of point: the pivot point between local applications, Cloud services, and between the Cloud services themselves.