OpenCloud Connect Releases Reference Architecture to Promote Consistent Cloud Standards
March 27, 2015
Grazed from TheWhir. Author: Cheryl Kemp.
A new 104-page document describing best practices for cloud providers was released on Tuesday by OpenCloud Connect (OCC). The organization’s focus is to provide cloud providers with guidelines for scaling and enhancing ethernet technology to better deal with the increasing demands of cloud services.
“One of the primary goals of OpenCloud Connect is to advance technology standards, vendor interoperability and best design practices,” stated the executive summary. “These initiatives will help businesses create a flexible and dynamic cloud infrastructure.” “Where other standards bodies had the space to shape standards in advance of market penetration, cloud computing is already surging ahead in every direction powered by NFV, SDN, virtualization technologies and networking – technologies that are themselves still evolving quickly…
Our response is to iteratively develop the OpenCloud Reference Architecture, our OCP Test Bed and standards simultaneously to keep ahead of business needs,” said OCC president, James Walker. “The aim is to evolve a fully interworking cloud environment, and the advancement of best practices to manage OTT and cloud services.”…
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