Open Data Center Alliance Releases New Cloud Usage Model Publication
Infrastructure model helps increase standardization of cloud service consumption.
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has published its usage model on cloud infrastructure. Business consumers can use this model, along with related ODCA usage models, to guide their cloud service acquisition decisions and increase the standardization of cloud service consumption.
Although Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is often distilled to three components —compute, networking, and storage — they are more appropriately considered as a cohesive set of aggregate resources that can be purchased, provisioned and managed as a whole. This is especially important as the lines between Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and IaaS blur.