Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Contributing to emerging Cloud standards
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Contributed by Tony
Di Cenzo, Director for Standards Strategy and Architecture, and Mark Carlson,
Principal Cloud Architect, for Oracle's Systems Management and Storage Products
Groups .
As one
would expect of an industry leader, Oracle's participation in industry
standards bodies is extensive. We participate in dozens of organizations that
produce open standards which apply to our products, and our commitment to the
success of these organizations is manifest in several way - we support them
financially through our memberships; our senior engineers are active
participants, often serving in leadership positions on boards, technical
working groups and committees; and when it makes good business sense we
contribute our intellectual property. We believe supporting the development of
open standards is fundamental to Oracle meeting customer demands for product
choice, seamless interoperability, and lowering the cost of ownership.
Nowhere
is this truer than in the area of cloud standards, and for the most recent
release of our flagship management product, Oracle
Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (EM
Cloud Control 12c).
There
is a fundamental rule that standards follow architecture. This was true of distributed computing, it
was true of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and it's true of cloud. If you are familiar with Enterprise Manager
it is likely to be no surprise that EM Cloud
Control 12c is a source of technology that can be considered for adoption
within cloud management standards. The
reason, quite simply, is that the Oracle integrated stack architecture aligns
with the cloud architecture models being adopted by the industry, and EM Cloud Control 12c has been developed to
manage this architecture. EM Cloud
Control 12c has facilities for managing the various underlying capabilities of the
integrated stack in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS clouds, and enables essential
characteristics such as on-demand self-service provisioning, centralized
policy-based resource management, integrated chargeback, and capacity planning,
and complete visibility of the physical and virtual environment from
applications to disk.
Our most recent contribution in support of cloud management
standards to come out of the EM Cloud
Control 12c work was the Oracle Cloud Elemental Resource Model API. Oracle contributed the Elemental Resource
Model API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) in 2011 where it was
assigned to DMTF's Cloud Management Working Group (CMWG). The CMWG is
considering the Oracle specification and those of several other vendors in
their effort to produce a best practices specification for managing IaaS
clouds. DMTF's Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface specification, called
CIMI for short, is currently out for public review and expected to be released
by DMTF later this year. We are proud to be playing an important role in the
development of what is expected to become a major cloud standard.
You
can find more information on DMTF CIMI at http://dmtf.org/standards/cloud. You can find
the work-in-progress release of CIMI at http://dmtf.org/content/cimi-work-progress-specifications-now-available-public-comment
. The Oracle Cloud API specification is available on the Oracle
Technology Network. You can find more information about the Oracle
Cloud Elemental Resource Model API on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN),
including a webcast featuring the API engineering manager Jack Yu (see TechCast
Live: Inside the Oracle Cloud Resource Model API). If you have not
seen this video we recommend you take the time to view it. Simply hover your
cursor over the webcast title and control+click
to follow the embedded link.
If you have a question about the Oracle Cloud
API or want to learn more about Oracle's participation in cloud management
standards efforts drop us a line. We'd love to hear from you.
The Enterprise Manager Standards Blogs are written by Tony
Di Cenzo, Director for Standards Strategy and Architecture, and Mark Carlson,
Principal Cloud Architect, for Oracle's Systems Management and Storage Products
Groups. They can be reached at Tony.DiCenzo at Oracle.com
and Mark.Carlson at Oracle.com
respectively.
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