Oracle hopes to create a standard for running private clouds with its Cloud Resource Model API.
It is now up to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to consider this proposal as a possible standard.
The API provides cloud management software a set of hooks hide provisioning service low-level configuration details from an laaS-styled offering. It could also allow users to deploy virtual servers across clouds run on different hardware platforms.
The set has 2 pieces-- the model describing the relationships between different types of resources Read more...