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Today the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) announced it created a new group called the Open Cloud Standards Incubator to work on defining standards to help enable interoperable management of clouds. Many of the key leaders in the cloud computing space committed to collaborating in the Incubator to create standards that will be supported by the industry.  You can read more about the announcement here. 

This promising development in the cloud computing community helps address end-user concerns about cloud computing. Collaboration among cloud computing leaders can lead to easier management of cloud resources and improve interoperability between disparate private and public clouds. 

DMTF is an industry standards group that brings the IT industry together to collaborate on the development, validation and promotion of systems management standards. Companies in the DMTF collaborate on management standards because our customers—IT customers—demand that we make our products easier to manage when they are deployed together in their environments.  IT administrators do not want to be forced to use separate management tools and processes for each vendor’s product.  That’s too complex and expensive. 

The need for interoperable management is no different for a cloud computing environment.  There are still multiple resources to manage from hardware systems and virtualized platforms to software and applications. In addition, clouds both within an enterprise and publicly available need to interoperate and, to some degree, be managed holistically.  In order to make cloud computing easier to adopt and maintain, standards that simplify the management of these resources distributed among different clouds are needed.  

Finally, I think the goal in the industry is to make cloud computing more cost effective, reliable and easier to maintain.  We can help achieve this goal by putting good standards in place that we all support to simplify managing this complex environment.  This standardization can help our customers significantly realize the full benefits of the cloud computing paradigm.

If you are attending Microsoft Management Summit this week you can stop by the DMTF booth (#437) and find out more about the organization and its standards.  You can also visit AMD in booth #517 where we’ll be showing you some real-life examples of interoperable management with DMTF DASH.

Valerie K. Kane (@valeriekane) is a senior marketing manager at AMD and VP of Marketing for the DMTF. Her postings are her own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.