Cloud Management Standards

Working to Address Management Interoperability for Cloud Systems

Technologies like cloud computing and virtualization are rapidly being adopted by enterprise IT managers to better deliver services to their customers, lower IT costs and improve operational efficiencies.

Using the recommendations developed by its  Open Cloud Standards Incubator, DMTF's cloud efforts are focused on standardizing interactions between cloud environments by developing specifications that deliver architectural semantics and implementation details to achieve interoperable cloud management between service providers and their consumers and developers. This work is being addressed in the Cloud Management Work Group (CMWG) and the Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) Work Group.

• Read the CMWG Charter
• Read the CADF Charter
• Read the VMAN & Cloud Interoperability Overview Document
• Read the Interoperable Cloud White Paper
• Read the Architecture for Managing Clouds
• Read the Use Cases and Interactions for Managing Clouds

Additional Resources:

•  Learning Center: Visit the DMTF Learning Center for a complete list of overview documents, tutorials and related information.
• Virtualization Management (VMAN)
  DMTF's Virtualization Management (VMAN) standards unleash the power of virtualization by delivering broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual computing environments through the Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
• Cloud Standards Wiki
  The Cloud Standards Wiki is a resource documenting the activities of the various Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) working on cloud standards.