India, July 6 -- Adhering to compliance can be tricky for enterprises that move to the cloud, but the creation of standards to automate governance could ease some of the issues they face. The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) recently issued a whitepaper that lays out why standardizing different reporting methods might save organizations from some of their headaches.

Co-founder Nick Lippis says ONUG is advancing its efforts beyond the first phase of the collaboration, which focused on basic governance in the cloud era. "Governance is all about control, how you control information and data," he says. "Those two pieces are usually the root causes of failure in most digital transformation projects."

Organizations want to reassert control o...