DMTF releases new Open Cloud Standards Incubator documents

Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) has announced the availability of two new documents produced by its Open Cloud Standards Incubator. The documents – ‘Use Cases and Interactions for Managing Clouds’ and ‘Architecture for Managing Clouds’ - will form the foundation for DMTF's ongoing cloud standards work. In addition, DMTF has also launched the Cloud Management Workgroup (CMWG), to develop cloud management standards based on the recommendations outlined in the Incubator documents.

The documents describe how standardized interfaces and data formats can be used to manage cloud environments. Together, they provide a comprehensive overview of DMTF's recommended use cases, interactions, data formats and overall architecture for cloud management. Moving forward, the CMWG will focus on using this information to develop a set of standards that deliver architectural semantics and implementation details to achieve interoperable management of clouds between service providers and their consumers and developers. Additional areas of emphasis within the workgroup will include creating cloud service management models and developing mappings to prevalent infrastructure models, including DMTF's Open Virtualization Format (OVF). The CMWG will also continue collaborating with DMTF alliance partners including Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Open Grid Forum (OGF), TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum), and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

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•Date: 30th July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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