Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch for B2B services, is working with the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to advance international cloud and virtualisation management standards.
Cloud computing standards will allow more choice for IT customers via interoperability and portabililty between cloud environments.
DMTF enables effective management of millions of IT systems across the world. The group has 160 member companies and organisations and represented by more than 4,000 active participants in 43 countries.
As a member of the DMTF cloud management workgroup, Orange Business Services will help promote Open Virtual Format (OVF), a current American Standard, to becoming an international standard.
Orange will also endorse an ISO certification for the new international virtualisation standard.
The second area where Orange Business Services will focus is on global standardisation for a cloud management Application Programming Interface (API). In addition, Orange will promote the introduction of functionalities required for Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure needs as well.
DMTF president Winston Bumpus said, "We’re pleased to welcome Orange Business Services to DMTF and look forward to the contributions they will make to the cloud management workgroup and the promotion of OVF."
Orange Business Services cloud services chief Alex Rigaldo said, "The rapid growth of virtual infrastructure needs for our cloud services has driven the requirement for a standard management solution. Many technical solutions are available, therefore Orange Business Services looks forward to working with DMTF and other initiatives in order to establish a standard cloud management interface to enable the shift from a technology-centric to a usage-driven IT approach."
