ADDING and REPLACING The Open Data Center Alliance Reaches Major Milestone with Delivery of First Public Customer Requirements

THE OPEN DATA CENTER ALLIANCE REACHES MAJOR MILESTONE WITH DELIVERY OF FIRST PUBLIC CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

Organization Announces Recommendations for Enhanced Security, Services Transparency, Efficient Computing and Enhanced Cloud Interoperability to Accelerate $50B Cloud Computing Industry

First statement of customer requirements for cloud

"This publication exceeds our expectations for a first statement of customer requirements for cloud and reflects the importance of this topic to our collective 280+ strong global membership. The organization's ability to very rapidly come at the same time, establish workgroups, and develop the initial usage models demonstrates what is possible when end users share a common vision for the requirements of shaping evolving data centers and cloud computing," said Curt Aubley, vice president and CTO of Cyber Security & NexGen Technology, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions, and Open Data Center Alliance president. "The Alliance enthusiastically endorses use of the usage models for immediate use for member planning for cloud implementations and encourages the vendor and solution provider community to leverage these use case driven guidelines when developing products."

"Working with the Open Data Center Alliance, an impressive group of global end user companies, is part of EMC¹s strategy to accelerate clients¹ journey to the cloud so they can achieve business agility and efficiency," said Doc D'Errico, EMC's Vice President, EMC Solutions Group. "EMC is excited to be one of the Solution Provider members collaborating with the Alliance to meet the requirements outlined in its first usage models for deploying flexible, hybrid cloud solutions."

"Cloud computing's emergence as a transformational force for the data center brings new challenges for data center resource management," said Winston Bumpus, DMTF President. "The usage models announced by the Open Data Center Alliance today highlight customer demand for open, interoperable cloud management standards. DMTF looks forward to identifying opportunities to collaborate with the Alliance as we continue to lead the development of interoperable IT management standards."

"Cloud computing offers new levels of organizational efficiency, provided it is grounded in open, interoperable methods. Widespread cloud adoption will only succeed if it employs open standards, and so then-articulated user requirements make an important contribution to the standards process," said Laurent Liscia, executive director, OASIS. "The Open Data Center Alliance's usage models for Service Catalogs and Standard Units of Measurement seek clear metrics so that clients can evaluate and compare cloud services. OASIS standards for transactions, assertions, units of measure, provisioning and policy should provide an excellent foundation for delivery of the Alliance's goals. OASIS will be pleased to work with the members of ODC Alliance to drive implementation of existing standards, and develop new standards where needed to fulfill the potential of the cloud for the data center."

"The finalization of the initial Open Data Center publication represents an inflection point for the cloud computing industry and end users," said Sean Kelley, CIO Platform Services Group at Deutsche Bank, and Chairman of the ECLC. "TM Forum's Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council shares the same priorities as the Open Data Center Alliance of defining IT requirements and enabling the optimal, flexible and efficient management of a cloud ecosystem for the delivery of cloud services and data center deployments."

"The IT industry is at a critical inflection point - a period Dell is calling the virtual era, which is being driven by new types of solutions and services that address customer needs for greater mobility, virtualization, cloud computing and ubiquitous data access and capacity," said Brian Payne, Executive Director, PowerEdge Platform Marketing. "In this era, the work of the Open Data Center Alliance provides a great possibility for end users to organize and deliver specific requirements for broad enterprise adoption of cloud resources. As a leader in cloud computing, Dell is looking forward to working with the Alliance leaders to provide feedback on the usage models as we develop solutions aligned to end user needs."

The Open Data Center Alliance

"Working with the Open Data Center Alliance, an impressive group of global end user companies, is part of EMC's strategy to accelerate clients' journey to the cloud so they can achieve business agility and efficiency," said Doc D'Errico, EMC's Vice President, EMC Solutions Group. "EMC is excited to be one of the Solution Provider members collaborating with the Alliance to meet the requirements outlined in its first usage models for deploying flexible, hybrid cloud solutions."

"Red Hat has long focused on approaching research from the viewpoint of our clients with an unwavering commitment to open source and open standards. Joining the Open Data Center Alliance will continue this work to help clients build high-performance, scalable and reliable IT infrastructures that span physical, virtual and cloud deployments," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business at Red Hat. "Drawing from our experience in community stewardship of important cloud projects and technologies during keeping customer needs top priority, we look forward to being part of this alliance to design open, interoperable cloud environments."