
Discussing Virtual Machine interoperability with the Open Data Center Alliance
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is holding its Forecast event in San Francisco in June, and I’ve been invited to moderate the panel discussing Virtual Machine Interoperability. As moderator, I’ll be far more interested in facilitating insights from panel and audience than in wittering on about what I think, so I wanted to use this […]

Video: Forecast 2012 Panel On Cloud Transparency
Last month Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) held their first conference by name Forecast 2012. I had an opportunity to moderate a panel on Cloud Transparency. Cloud Transparency is still a new idea for people but a vital one needed to build the much needed trust for organizations wanting to move their workloads to cloud. […]

Win A Free Ticket To Forecast 2012 Conference And/Or Deploycon 2012
Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) (previous CloudAve coverage) is running a conference called Forecast 2012 to shape the future of cloud computing. This is an enterprise focussed panel with some interesting keynotes and engaging panels. Check out the agenda for yourselves. ODCA has agreed to give away one ticket to the event for CloudAve readers. […]

Open Data Center Alliance Announces Public Customer Requirements For Cloud Computing
Open Data Center Alliance (previous CloudAve coverage), an alliance of IT customers with more than $100 Billion in budget with Intel playing the role of technical advisor, last week announced recommendations for customer requirements for cloud computing in the areas related to security, transparency, efficiency and interoperability. Launched in October of 2010, ODCA has three […]

Intel Pushes Open Data Center Alliance
Intel is cheerleading a new alliance of 70 IT customers (with a net spending of $ 50 Billion), vendors and others to develop a vendor agnostic usage roadmap. The new body is called Open Data Center Alliance aims to define how datacenters of the future are to be built. Whether this will define the future […]