Open Data Center Alliance Identifies Priorities For Driving VM Interoperability In The Enterprise Cloud
Organization releases new POC paper detailing results from recent VM interoperability testing.
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has announced the release of a new POC (proof-of-concept) paper developed to determine where the virtual machine (VM) industry currently is in meeting interoperability requirements outlined in the ODCA VM interoperability usage model. The paper overviews procedures and results from recent ODCA VM interoperability testing and identifies priorities and gaps that hypervisor and VM solution providers need to address in order to move VM interoperability between public and private enterprise clouds forward. ODCA will hold a June 17 panel at Forecast 2013 where testing results outlined in the POC will be discussed and steps for addressing the current gaps in VM interoperability will be developed. All Forecast 2013 attendees are invited to attend this panel event.
"The ODCA VM interoperability usage model has been adopted by many of our member companies as a core foundation for implementing their enterprise ready clouds and has been extremely instrumental in shaping new solutions from VM vendors," said Ryan Skipp, Portfolio and Solution Development at DTAG/T-Systems and Chair of the ODCA Manageability and Services Workgroup. "The POC paper released today is important because it clearly illustrates what industry needs to do next to advance interoperability based on ODCA VM interoperability requirements. Forecast 2013 is the perfect venue to bring hypervisor and VM solution providers together with industry to collaboratively address these pressing issues."