Cameron Sturdevant

[WP_IMAGE] The Open Data Center Alliance Service Catalog usage model is by far the most detailed of the publications issued in the first round of requirements. In many ways, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) attempts in the Service Catalog (SC) a codification of the real interaction between cloud providers and cloud consumers. Fans of […]

[WP_IMAGE] Simon Crosby, one of the most outspoken, provocative, and combative of Citix’s CTOs, resigned today. According to the Citrix press release, Crosby and Xen open source platform co-founder Ian Pratt are leaving to form a new company called “Bromium.” XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenClient, Citrix Receiver, and Citrix Open Cloud represent half of the named […]

[WP_IMAGE] The Open Data Center Alliance Standard Units of Measure of IaaS is the beginnings of a framework designed to help cloud consumers make rational choices about which cloud providers to use based on apples-to-apples comparisons. The Standard Units of Measure (SUoM) where crafted for Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) providers, but the principle applies […]

[WP_IMAGE] The Open Data Center Alliance Regulatory Framework usage model does a decent job of getting cloud providers to step up to the compliance plate while rightly insisting the cloud consumers are ultimately accountable for risks. The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Regulatory Framework (RF) publication is among the longest of the organizations usage models […]

[WP_IMAGE] Open Data Center Alliance, Part 5–Security Provider Assurance The Open Data Center Alliance Security Provider Assurance usage model seeks to standardize cloud security definitions. The Provider Assurance (PA) publication is designed for use with the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Monitoring usage model that I discussed in Part 4 of this series. The […]

[WP_IMAGE] The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Monitoring Usage Model supports and depends heavily on work being done at the Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit. Both of these groups are made up primarily of vendors or vendor employees who supply security services and products or who have a vested interest in promoting the idea […]

[WP_IMAGE] SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, nee Hyper9, is in eWEEK Labs and the results thus far are positive. So far I’ve gotten a wealth of performance reports and planning recommendations for the Labs VMware vSphere testing environment. As of today, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (SVM) is VMware-only, no Microsoft Hyper-V or Xen support. SVM is priced for […]

[WP_IMAGE] “A divide as real as any weather front separates private, wholly owned data centers from public, capacity-for-hire cloud providers. There is a role for IT in creating a bridge across this divide as virtualization of all types enables more efficient application development, virtual machine provisioning and business continuity.” This is the start of my […]

A divide as real as any weather front separates private, wholly owned data centers from public, capacity-for-hire cloud providers. There is a role for IT in creating a bridge across this divide as virtualization of all types enables more efficient application development, virtual machine provisioning and business continuity. A bridged private/public cloud promises efficient workload […]

[WP_IMAGE] The ODCA Carbon Footprint usage model frankly recognizes that green is good for the bottom line. And in this sense the Carbon Footprint document is a good starting point for IT managers who want to make greener choices when selecting cloud services. At the end of the day, however, organizations that are serious about […]

[WP_IMAGE] The ODCA is using years-old work to help press the case for virtual machine interoperability. The basic idea is that VMs created on one hypervisor platform and/or running in a cloud provider data center should be able to move to another data center and/or to a different hypervisor platform. The ODCA mentions the work […]

[WP_IMAGE] Early data center cloud computing adopters likely had a competitive “secret sauce” that they didn’t want to share. Apparently, the balance is shifting from protecting the “secret sauce” to avoiding cloud vendor lock-in. Today, the ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance) issued eight sets of customer requirements that outline an open data center usage model. […]