Oracle

William Vambenepe explores in detail the differences between OTN's "Oracle Cloud Resource Model API"  and the DMTF's “Oracle Cloud Elemental Resource Model.” 

Oracle recently published a Cloud management API on OTN and also submitted a subset of the API to the new DMTF Cloud Management working group. The OTN specification, titled “Oracle Cloud Resource Model API”, is available here. In typical DMTF fashion, the DMTF-submitted specification is not publicly available (if you have a DMTF account and [...]

Yesterday’s panel session on the future of Cloud standards at Cloud Connect is still resonating on Twitter tonight. Many were shocked by how acrimonious the debate turned. It didn’t have to be that way but I am not surprised that it was. The debate was set up and moderated by Bob Marcus (ET-Strategies CTO and [...]

[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]

[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]

[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2 was an analysis of how REST applies to configuration management. Both of these entries received [...]

Remember 2006? Things were starting to fall into place for IT management integration and automation: SDD was already on its way to cleanly describe/package/manage the lifecycle of simple and composite applications alike, the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to [...]

VMWare published its vCloud API yesterday (it was previously only available to a few partners) and submitted it to the DMTF, as had been previously announced. So much for my speculations involving IBM. It may be time to update the Cloud API comparison. After a very quick first pass, vCloud looks quite similar to the [...]