Security Principles for Cloud and SOA opengroup.org
Cloud Computing Portability and Interoperability opengroup.org
OpenStack openstack.org
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
[supports different OS image formats]
A multi-format image registry, the image service allows uploads of private and public images in a variety of formats, including:
Raw
Machine (kernel/ramdisk outside of image, a.k.a. AMI)
VHD (Hyper-V)
VDI (VirtualBox)
qcow2 (Qemu/KVM)
VMDK (VMWare)
OVF (VMWare, others)
DevStack devstack.org
Run OpenStack locally
TOSCA | OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC | OASIS oasis-open.org
TOSCA v1.0 cs01 docs.oasis-open.org
see also NIST cloud references
Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation (Draft) csrc.nist.giv