Another Open Cloud Initiative Launches–And The Cloud Insiders Collectively Groan
December 1, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.
A new initiative backed by IBM and with the involvement of a number of second-tier European vendors was recently launched. It’s always interesting to see these “open initiatives” – they’re generally heralded by triumphant sounding press releases, marketing department-fuelled hyperbole and little else.
Over the past half dozen years or so I have been amazed at the number of times these things have been launched (and, as an aside, does anyone else notice that IBM IBM -0.17% is often the central figure in these deals?). I’ve seen, off the top of my head: DCRM, DMTF, OCCI, ODCA, OSIMM, OVF, SNMP, TOSCA, CAMP… you get the idea. Of these acronyms and initiatives, very few still exist, and even less gained any real traction…
Which is why the Open Cloud Alliance (OCI) is an interesting development. Spearheaded by (you guess it) IBM, and with the involvement of a number of small regional vendors (Univention, ownCloud, Open-Xchange, Zarafa, Netzlink, teuto.net and Plutex), OCI aims to “solve the key challenges in cloud computing today”. OCI has an interesting assessment of what today’s challenges actually are. In its estimation, challenge #1 for customers is their dependence on large providers (read public cloud vendors)…
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