Learn about the Open Data Center Alliance Workgroups, Usage Models and Roadmap Structure from the perspective of the Alliance Technical Coordination Committee. This presentation was used in the Nov. 18, 2010 Alliance Webcast delivered by Howard Grodin, VP of Strategic Programs, Terrermark; Alliance Technical Coordination Committee Member, and Ravi Subranamiam, Intel Corporation; Alliance Technical Advisor.
For more information about the Open Data Center Alliance, visit www.opendatacenteralliance.org. You will also find the Webcast recording that accompanies this presentation there.
2. TOPICS
Open Data Center Alliance Objectives and
Organization
Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) and
Working Groups
U
Usages and R d
d Roadmap
3. CURRENT END-USER & ECOSYSTEM
END-USER
END USER VOICE FRAGMENTED AND DUPLICATED
SDOs*
& Vendors
V d
Forums
Government
* SDO = Standards Development Organization
4. WITH ALLIANCE - A TRANSFORMED ECOSYSTEM
END USER VOICE AMPLIFIED COHERENT AND UNIFIED
END-USER AMPLIFIED,
SDOs*
& Vendors
Forums Open Data Center Alliance
Open & Interoperability Consistent & Unified
Requirements Requirements
Alliance Principles:
• Open
Coherent Voice
• Interoperable
• Multi-
Multi-sourced
• Consistent
• Coherent
• Unified Government
• * SDO = Standards Development Organization
• Open Data Center Alliance will not create standards only provide
requirements
5. OPEN DATA CENTER ALLIANCE GOALS FOCUS ON
SEEDING OPEN ECOSYSTEM
Identify critical usage models
Address key IT pain points in the cloud transition
Deliver roadmap of usage models that evolve over time
Enable industry to deliver open solutions
Enabling solution ecosystem in Next Generation Data Center and Cloud
Computing that addresses end-user pain points and requirements
end-
6. OPEN DATA CENTER ALLIANCE STRUCTURE
SC TCC AND WORKGROUPS
SC,
Steering Committee
Recommendation &
Standard
Approvals
Organizations
Liaisons
Technical Coordination Committee External
Technical
Forums
Technical Coordination
Government
Infrastructure Management Security Services &
Ecosystem
Members Members Members Members Members
7. FOCUS AREAS & WORKGROUPS
• Design and build of DC IT Solution
Cloud Creation Infrastructure (server, storage, network)
Effective
Management Management • Power, asset management & monitoring.
& Operation Capacity, etc.
Secure and
Govern
Security • And governance, compliance
• Service definition, SLA Management,
Cloud Use Services provisioning, service mappings & definition
,
Government,
Environment &
Government • Effi i
Efficiency, Green computing, DC P li
G ti Policy,
and Ecosystem cloud models, green design, govt. policy
Ecosystem
Workgroups have international representation and we are
working with Standards groups and other forums on liaisons
8. ROADMAP, USAGES AND ECOSYSTEM
AN EXAMPLE INTERACTION MODEL
Alliance Focus Eco System Focus
Eco-System
Open Data Center Ecosystem Programs
Alliance
Alliance Roadmap
ISV OEM
ISV OEM
ISV OEM
EU valued usages & ISV OEM
roadmap to ecosystem
(externally published)
Usages •Reference architectures
Docs •Platforms
End-customers define
•Solution stacks
business functionality
needed to deploy Other Industry
cloud – output in form of Solutions Efforts
Alliance documented roadmap &
d d d (e.g. Open Source, System
Workgroups usage documents Integrators etc.)
Ecosystem non-binding feedback (as suggestions only!)
10. TECHNICAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE
CHARTER
• Primarily to coordinate Workgroup activities (both from a process and technical
perspective) – including arbitrating on intra and inter WG usage-related issues
• Formulate input and options for Steering Committee to act upon, for example:
• Overall usage strategy
• Roadmap recommendations
• WG arbitration and resolution recommendations
bit ti d l ti d ti
• Engagement and opportunities with external forums/organizations
• Own the overall usage agenda:
• Drive agenda by developing the roadmap of usages
• Use this roadmap and usage priorities to manage delivery of work products
for each usage
• Engage with partner organizations to reconcile and rationalize usage work
• Educate others, including vendor community, on Alliance “technical activities”
through mechanisms like Webcasts and presentations at key partner/other
forums, etc
o u s, etc.
Note: Staffing of the TCC and WGs and nomination of WG chairs to be
done by Steering Committee
12. WORKGROUP STRUCTURE
Workgroup
Chair
Facilitator / Secretary
WG Members Attributes
Alliance Contributors Active
Special Interest Groups
Formed or
chartered if
Regional Chapter and when
required
Industry Segment
13. WORKGROUPS
OPERATIONS AND DECISIONS
WG Primary Functions:
• Encourage usage submission from any Alliance member via predefined template; WG reviews
and validates for inclusion or modify/enhance as necessary for inclusion
• WG directly responsible for constructing usages from practice and issues experienced by WG
member organizations
• Submission restricted to only Alliance members (Contributors and Adopters)
WG Usage Development Process
• WG decides process; Recommended - charter an informal study group per usage or identified
topic – may be delegated to a regional cell where required
WG Deliberations and Ratification Process:
• WG tries for decision on a usage or proposed motion to be approved with full consensus – if not
possible …
• Pi t 10R i i
Prior to 1.0 Revision: D i i on a usage or proposed motion d
Decision d ti done with simple majority position
ith i l j it iti
(50%+) (and dissent positions recorded)
• Post 1.0 Revision: Decision on a usage change/update or proposed motion adopted only with
super majority (66%+)
14. WORKGROUPS
USAGE DEFINITIONS
Usage Definition and Format
• Recommend Standard/Required Format with sufficient rigor
• See published examples (usage examples provided at launch)
• Usage versions < 1.0 for internal review and work product only; External publication at 1.0
version; publication will be periodically reviewed and revved post launch
launch.
16. Reminder
GOALS OF THE ALLIANCE USAGE MODEL ROADMAP
A public “one voice” statement by the Alliance of
most valuable usage models and Alliance
expectations for multivendor i t
t ti f lti d interoperability
bilit
• Important and relevant
• Bound to real end user implementation timeframes
• Alliance Principles Valued
Guidance to vendors on desired open solutions
A framework to make the Alliance P i i l
f kt k th Alli Principles
“testable”
Used to guide internal organization planning
and purchasing
17. ROADMAP PROCESS
Alliance
Initial
I iti l Usage topics inputs from WGs and TCC
U i i f WG d TCC
Till Rev 0.5 WGs review roadmap and document feedback
WGs review roadmap and document feedback
Released to Alliance non‐contributors for
Released to Alliance non‐
Rev 0.7
feedback
Rev 0.95 Released to Steering Committee for ratification
Rev 1.0 OFFICIAL RELEASE!!
18. ALLIANCE USAGE MODEL ROADMAP
BY Open Data Center Alliance RELEASE CADENCE
Initial Usage Models will be
Released as part of 1.0 Roadmap H1 - 2011
Infrastructure
Scale Out St
S l O t Storage Proximity Based Storage
Focus:
Unified Networking • Long-term commitment with multi-
Long- multi-
Management
year Roadmap.
Policy Based P
P li B d Power Dynamic W kl d
D i Workload
Management Placement
Development:
Security
• 19 prioritized usage models culled
Trusted Compute Pools Infrastructure Compliance
from dozens of potential targets.
Services
Cloud On Boarding
Common Provisioning Delivery
• Workgroup development underway
underway.
Government & Ecosystem • Membership to approve 1.0
Cloud Models
in Q1’11.
Licensing Models
NOTE: 0.5 directional roadmap shown; 1.0 POR roadmap in Q1 ‘11
19. USAGE ROADMAP
BY ECOSYSTEM READINESS EXPECTATIONS
2011 2012 2013 2014 2013 2012 2011
Common
Cloud On-
On- Provisioning Licensing
Boarding Models
Cloud Models
Dynamic
Workload Infrastructure
Placement Compliance
Proximity
Based Storage
Policy Based
Power Mgmt. Trusted Compute
Pools
Unified
Networking
Scale Out
St
Storage
NOTE: 0.5 directional roadmap by launch; 1.0 POR roadmap in Q1 ‘11
21. COLLATERAL TO BE DEVELOPED
1. 2 – 5 page summary of the usage
“Provides a quick overview of the important aspects of the usage”
2. Detailed description of th usages f ll i standard
2 D t il d d i ti f the following t d d
practices for defining usage models
“Provides detailed definition of the context, actors, scenarios, use cases,
alternate cases, expected outcomes etc”
3. Metrics
“Define usage object es a d outco es in measureable te s
e e objectives and outcomes easu eab e terms”
4. Benchmarks
“A stretch goal at this time – framework, test cases and methods to
independently validate solutions completeness and conformance to usage
expectations”
22. USAGE MODEL SUMMARY: CLOUD ON-BOARDING
Usage
Open Solution Stack = Gaps in the Stack
Applications
Management & Operations
VMM/OS
Problem Moving an application into a public cloud is a complicated process that may require application redesign
Statement and will require manual planning and provisioning. Once an application is instantiated in a particular
public cloud, extracting it or moving it to another public cloud is difficult and non-standard.
Solution Provide intermediation/migration/brokering tools that allow for easier Cloud On-Boarding; establish
On Boarding;
standards and federation models that allow for seamless On-Boarding.
2010 Usage • OnBoarding Data/Storage •OnBoarding Applications
Scenarios • Store/Archive to Cloud • Instantiate single, simple application
• Backup & Disaster Recovery • Instantiate complex application
• Access and Retrieval • Extract application/data from Cloud
2010 Key Open ISV API’s
Requirements Policy and Compliance Engines designed for simplicity
Scalable and Available Management
23. CALL TO ACTION
End-Users, Cloud Customers and Service Providers
1. Become a member at: www.opendatacenteralliance.org
p g
2. Apply for contributor membership to participate in the TCC
and WGs – usage model topics and inputs welcome
3. Inform peers about the Open Data Center Alliance – create
a stronger end user voice/position to Ecosystem
4. Attend
4 Att d members-only webcasts
b l b t
5. Stay engaged with the Alliance
Vendors
1. Watch for engagement opportunities in 2011
24. Q&A
Become a member, join the conversation
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