TOSCA and other cloud standardization efforts stall

As cloud computing rose to prominence, some in the IT industry spent considerable energy pushing for standardization. But those early efforts have largely fallen flat, even as the cloud market continues its unimpeded growth. The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) was one of the most prominent efforts to implement open standards in cloud computing. TOSCA aims to provide a common language and set of templates to describe the relationships and dependencies between services and applications that reside in the cloud. But early cloud standardization efforts haven't had much impact on the market, despite the fact that enterprises work with a growing number of cloud vendors.