On April 27, the DMTF launched the Open Cloud Standards Incubator. The goal as described by the DMTF press release is as follows:
The work of the Open Cloud Standards Incubator will focus on ways to facilitate operations between private clouds within enterprises and other private, public, or hybrid clouds by improving the interoperability between platforms through open cloud resource management standards. The group also aims to develop specifications to enable cloud service portability and provide management consistency across cloud and enterprise platforms.
The Open Cloud Standards Incubator was formed as part of the DMTF Standards Incubation process, which enables like-minded DMTF members to work together and produce informational specifications that can later be fast-tracked through the standards development process. The incubation process is designed to foster and expedite open, collaborative, exploratory technical work that complements the DMTF mission to lead the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management initiatives and standards.
Winston Bumpus, current President of the DMTF and fellow VMware employee has blogged a lot about cloud and the need for standards. His latest blog entry continues to highlight this push for VMware and the industry at large. VMware has had a lot of success in collaborating with others in the industry through the DMTF. The first successful example of that is the OVF (Open Virtualization Format). I’m sure the incubator project will yield similar (if not better) results.
