NIST Cloud Computing Program

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has developed guidelines and drafted them into a formal publication available specifically for cloud adopters. These include a roadmap for organizations in depicting the ideal methods by which an organization can transform their current enterprise IT to the cloud.

The guidelines published by NIST under this program includes, cloud computing reference architecture, a standards roadmap and other government and businesses related informational guides. The roadmap prepared for US Government is divided into three distinct volumes consisting of high priority requirements in cloud for government agencies, useful information for cloud adopters and technical considerations of cloud for these agencies.