Oracle revs up cloud API. News By Joab Jackson November 3, 2010 11:35 AM ET IDG News Service - Joining a number of other vendors and multi-vendor initiatives in the race to standardize cloud computing, Oracle has released a set of APIs for running a private cloud that the company hopes will become an industry standard. The company has submitted its proposed APIs to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) for consideration as a possible standard, the company announced Wednesday. "We're submitting it so discussions can be had around the establishment of cloud standards," said Rex Wang, vice president of product marketing. The idea is "to promote interoperability and to make sure that clouds can talk to one another to make sure workloads can be easily moved among clouds," he said.
The Oracle Cloud Resource Model API provides a set of hooks that could be used by cloud management software to hide the low-level configuration details of provisioning service from an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)-styled offering. Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game? July 20, 2010 Randy Bias This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there have been two major camps: Amazon API and architecture compatible and VMware’s vCloud. Now there is a third alternative that could not only be a viable alternative to these two approaches, but more importantly, a fantastic option for service providers and telecommunications companies that face unique challenges. Let’s dive in and I’ll explain. Cloud Stack Evolution & ‘Camps’Amazon Web Services (AWS) spawned a huge ecosystem of knock-offs, management systems, tools, and vendors.
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