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OASIS to Standardize Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP)
BOSTON --(Business Wire)--
The OASIS international consortium has launched the Cloud Application
Management for Platforms (CAMP) Technical Committee, a project to define
the interoperability standard for managing applications in Platform as a
Service (PaaS) environments. CAMP will leverage similarities between
commercial and open-source PaaS products to produce a simple API that is
language-, framework-, and platform-agnostic. Using CAMP, companies will
be able to migrate their cloud applications from one PaaS vendor to
another by mapping the requirements of applications to the specific
capabilities of the underlying platform.
"Companies are starting to experiment with PaaS, but even as they do, it
becomes clear that variations between the vendors' application
interfaces will make it hard to move applications from platform to
platform. That looks a lot like vendor lock-in, and it's putting
customers off," said Rachel Chalmers, VP of Research at The 451 Group (News - Alert).
"It is encouraging to see that this issue has been grasped by the vendor
community and is being addressed within the OASIS framework."
"CAMP's goal is to define a simple standard RESTful API along with a
JSON-based protocol, with an extensibility framework that enables
interoperability across multiple vendors' offerings. Using CAMP, users
can manage their application lifecycles and move applications between
clouds easily," said Martin Chapman of Oracle (News - Alert), chair of the OASIS CAMP
Technical Committee. "We expect CAMP to foster an ecosystem of common
tools, plugins, libraries and frameworks, which will allow vendors to
offer greater value-add."
Work on CAMP was initiated in late 2010 by a group of seven companies,
Oracle, Red Hat (News - Alert), Rackspace, Cloudsoft, Huawei, CloudBees, and Software
AG. They transitioned the project to OASIS in order to ensure CAMP would
benefit from broad industry participation in an open, collaborative
setting.
"CAMP is one of several new Cloud standardization projects at OASIS that
make use of JSON and REST," noted Laurent Liscia, OASIS executive
director and CEO. "We see the standardization of CAMP as an important
step in guiding the industry into an ecosystem of interoperable and
portable cloud systems."
The CAMP Technical Committee is open to all interested parties, and new
members are encouraged to join at any time. Archives of the work are
accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS invites public
review and comment on the work.
Support for CAMP
Cloudsoft
"Enterprises
are getting serious about hybrid cloud computing - combining their
on-premise capability with cloud service provider offerings. Enterprises
are also zeroing in on PaaS - cloud middleware if you will - as the most
effective way of exploiting cloud. However, to de-risk their hybrid
cloud strategy and avoid PaaS lock-in, they view genuine multi-cloud
support as absolutely essential and the work of the OASIS CAMP TC as
critical, since cloud-agnostic application management is the key to
cloud interoperability."
-- Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO
JumpSoft
"Organizations
clearly desire better cloud portability, usability and interoperability
for PaaS environments. JumpSoft is committed to supporting open
standards in our application management products. CAMP provides a
standard API for cloud application management solutions to ensure
customers will have a choice in their cloud technology and services."
-- David
Sawyer, CEO
Oracle
"As
part of the OASIS Technical Committee for CAMP, Oracle looks forward to
continuing to help define a simple REST-based approach for management of
cloud-based applications. In addition, CAMP can provide a framework for
extensibility to support the evolution of products, while enabling
portability across clouds and compatibility with PaaS-aware and
PaaS-unaware application development environments."
-- Jeff
Mischkinsky, senior director, Oracle Fusion Middleware
Software
AG
"As a Sponsor member of OASIS, Software AG welcomes the
formation of the CAMP Technical Committee. As a co-author of the CAMP
specification, we hope our contributions to this TC effort will serve to
advance CAMP as a standard that is broadly adopted, enabling
interoperability between vendor products while offering increased choice
for customers. We are excited about the emerging standards efforts in
the Cloud space, that is expected to transform the way business is done
in the future."
-- Prasad Yendluri, VP & Deputy CTO
Standing
Cloud
"Standing Cloud is committed to helping cloud customers
avoid lock-in, so that they can leverage the cloud without limiting
their future options. Industry standards are the most powerful way to
ensure this flexibility for the long term, and we are enthusiastic about
our participation in the OASIS CAMP Technical Committee to help realize
that vision."
-- David J. Jilk, CEO
Additional information:
OASIS CAMP Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/camp/
About OASIS:
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the
development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global
information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces
worldwide standards for cloud computing, content technologies, business
transactions, security, privacy, SOA, the Smart Grid, emergency
management, and other applications. OASIS open standards offer the
potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and
protect the right of free choice of technology. OASIS members broadly
represent the marketplace of public and private sector technology
leaders, users, and influencers. The consortium has more than 5,000
participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members
in 100 countries.
http://www.oasis-open.org
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