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BMW adopts Open Data Center Alliance requirements for its cloud implementation - New Usage Models announced today
March 2013 by Marc Jacob
Today the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) announced that BMW has adopted ODCA requirements for its cloud implementation. BMW’s cloud strategy is detailed in the new ODCA white paper: The Open Data Center Alliance: Private Cloud Strategy at BMW which discusses BMW’s multiple phases of cloud implementation from internal cloud delivery to full integration of public cloud services using ODCA requirements as core foundations. The paper provides other enterprises with a model they can use to implement their own cloud strategies based on ODCA requirements.
ODCA also announced today that it has released two new usage models focused on Software Entitlement and Data Security. With today’s news ODCA has now released over 20 cloud requirements documents and publications and is demonstrating significant momentum in the adoption of its cloud usage models.
Mario Mueller, chair of the Open Data Center Alliance and Vice President of IT Infrastructure at BMW is available for comment on today’s news. Please let me know if I can put you in touch with him. In the meantime, a few links supporting the announcement follow. The entire press release issued today is included below.
