Adaptive Management Principles and their Application to Cloud Computing 

Standards for Cloud Computing environments are being developed at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, one area of Cloud Computing that is conspicuously missing is standards for management needed to support, maintain and manage the highly dynamic nature inherently provided by Cloud Computing environments. The goal of this presentation is to describe the foundational elements needed for the specification and development of a management environment that works with a Cloud Computing service delivery environment to assure that services are delivered to customers in a timely, secure and cost-efficient manner while maintaining the dynamic re-configurability promised by Cloud Computing architectures.