Use Case: Single technical integration to support multiple service providers

• Name: Single technical integration to support multiple service providers
• Contact: Richard Davies, ElasticHosts.
• Description: (This is the major benefit ElasticHosts sees from a standardized IaaS API). Today, each cloud provider (ElasticHosts, GoGrid, Amazon, etc.) integrates independently with every other player in the cloud ecosystem (CohesiveFT, RightScale, etc), producing O(n^2) separate technical integrations. In the future, if all cloud providers and cloud ecosystem partners use a single standard API, then we have O(n) technical integrations, and all potential partnerships can immediately interoperate.
• Non-functional Requirements
  • Uptake: Standardized IaaS API needs strong uptake in by both cloud providers and cloud ecosystem.