[occi-wg] An OCCI Update

[Alexis Richardson]

Indeed, this is good progress.

Let's all now get the message out beyond our community and make it grow!

alexis


On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Ignacio M. Llorente
<llorente at dacya.ucm.es>wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> Congratulations!. It is great to see the growing adoption of the
> specification. When Thijs and I started the group two years ago, it
> was not easy to convince OGF about the relevance and the urgency of
> starting this WG, and to involve the first projects and companies.
>
> I would like to acknowledge the contribution of the developers of the
> two first OCCI implementations at INFN and in the OpenNebula
> open-source community and the RESERVOIR project. They have invested,
> and are investing, a lot of time in the development, support and
> maintenance of the code, so contributing to make a difference by
> creating a "usable" standard. These outcomes are being used in many
> new research and infrastructure projects, being in my view the main
> driver for adoption, and the main reason why many companies and
> projects are creating components around the OCCI open specification.
>
> Again, I am very happy to see this level of activity around an open
> specification for cloud computing.
>
> The creation of a group about federation of cloud infrastructures is
> great news and a natural step that should leverage the work that has
> been done in the context of many grid OGF WGs. Two supercomputing
> centers in Europe have federated their cloud infrastructures using
> OpenNebula and OCCI (http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=999), and there are
> several Telecoms federating their data  centers using a similar
> approach, I am sure that they will be happy to contribute their
> experiences.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Edmonds, AndrewX
> <andrewx.edmonds at intel.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > I've put together a short article [1] on some of the current developments
> in
> > the land of OCCI. Check it out and if you could be so kind re-tweet [2]
> and
> > share it about :-)
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > [1] http://andy.edmonds.be/2010/11/occi-and-more/
> > [2] http://twitter.com/dizz/status/29569460471
> >
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