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Open Data Center Alliance Aims to Simplify IT Challenges

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The Open Data Center Alliance, formed by major IT users including Intel, has announced a new industry group to simplify IT challenges and fulfill cloud infrastructure needs. The steering committee, composed of prominent companies such as BMW, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Lockheed Martin, aims to create an open, vendor-agnostic Usage Model Roadmap to guide data center and cloud purchasing decisions. With a joint spending power of $50 billion, the Alliance has delivered a 0.5 Usage Model Roadmap featuring 19 prioritized usage models. The group's chairman and secretary, Marvin Wheeler of Terremark, believes the Open Data Center Alliance will become a leading voice in the IT community, setting the direction for emerging technologies.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Open Data Center Alliance is a new industry group formed by major IT users, including Intel, to simplify IT challenges and fulfill cloud infrastructure needs.
  • The steering committee is composed of prominent companies such as BMW, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Lockheed Martin, with a joint spending power of $50 billion.
  • The Alliance has delivered a 0.5 Usage Model Roadmap featuring 19 prioritized usage models, which will guide data center and cloud purchasing decisions.
  • Marvin Wheeler, CSO of Terremark and Open Data Center Alliance chairman and secretary, stated that the Alliance will become a leading voice in the IT community, setting the direction for emerging technologies.
  • The data center industry has several groups focused on developing standards or educating end-users, but the Open Data Center Alliance is unique in its focus on customers who are looking to adopt cloud computing but face barriers such as high costs.

Statistics:

  • The Open Data Center Alliance has a joint spending power of $50 billion.
  • The Alliance has delivered a 0.5 Usage Model Roadmap, featuring 19 prioritized usage models.
  • The group's critical mass includes 11 member companies from various industries.
  • The Open Data Center Alliance is led by a steering committee composed of 11 companies, with Marvin Wheeler as the chairman and secretary.

Sources:

  • Contify.com, "Open Data Center Alliance Aims to Simplify IT Challenges and Fulfill Cloud Infrastructure Needs"
  • Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd., distributed by Contify.com

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