During the last couple of days, two key specifications for cloud management standards have been announced. Oracle collaborated with leading technology vendors from the IT industry on both of these cloud management specifications. One of the specifications focuses "Infrastructure as a Service" ( IaaS ) cloud service model , while the other specification announced today focuses on "Platform as a Service" ( PaaS ) cloud service model. Please see The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing to learn more about IaaS and PaaS .
Earlier today Oracle , CloudBees,
Cloudsoft,
Huawei,
Rackspace,
Red Hat, and
Software AG announced the Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP)
specification that will be submitted to Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for development of an industry standard, in an effort to help ensure
interoperability for deploying and managing applications across cloud
environments.
Typical PaaS architecture - Source : CAMP specification
The CAMP specification
defines the artifacts and APIs that need to be offered by a PaaS cloud
to manage the building, running, administration, monitoring and patching
of applications in the cloud. Its purpose is to enable interoperability
among self-service interfaces to PaaS clouds by defining artifacts and
formats that can be used with any conforming cloud and enable
independent vendors to create tools and services that interact with any
conforming cloud using the defined interfaces. Cloud vendors can use
these interfaces to develop new PaaS offerings that will interact with
independently developed tools and components.
In a separate cloud standards announcement yesterday, the Distributed Management Task Force ( DMTF ), the organization bringing the IT
industry together to collaborate on systems management standards
development, validation, promotion and adoption, released the new Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI)
specification. Oracle collaborated with various technology vendors and industry organizations on this specification.
CIMI standardizes interactions between
cloud environments to achieve interoperable cloud infrastructure
management between service providers and their consumers and developers,
enabling users to manage their cloud infrastructure use easily and
without complexity. DMTF developed CIMI as a self-service interface for infrastructure
clouds ( IaaS focus ) , allowing users to dynamically provision, configure and
administer their cloud usage with a high-level interface that greatly
simplifies cloud systems management.
Mark Carlson, Principal Cloud Strategist at Oracle provides more details about CAMP and CIMI his blog .
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