Data Center Initiative Continues Momentum With First Working Group Meeting Today
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003; 12:00 AM
SUNNYVALE, CA, November 18, 2003 - The Data Center Markup Language
(DCML) Organization today announced continued momentum as BMC Software
Inc. [NYSE: BMC], a leader in enterprise management, and Fujitsu Siemens
Computers joined the industry-wide DCML effort. Additionally, representatives
from the thirty-seven companies comprising the DCML Organization will
hold the first working group session today in San Francisco.
Representatives at today's meeting will work to further define the
DCML specification, which serves as a vital component to improving data
center manageability and the foundation for realizing a utility computing environment. DCML provides a common language to enable data
center automation, utility computing, and system management solutions
to exchange information about the data center environment, making the
vision of automated computing a reality.
"As a leader in enterprise management, BMC Software is committed
to empowering IT to deliver strategic business value," said Mary
Nugent, vice president and general manager, Service Management Solutions, BMC Software. "Our Business Service Management strategy,
which allows customers to directly links IT resources to the overall goal
of the business, will be strengthened by the development of an industry
standard that will simplify data center management. We look forward to
using DCML to help customers further reduce the costs and complexity of
managing their key business services."
The DCML organization is open to a broad range of technology vendors and
Global 2000 companies committed to creating a technically robust open
specification. "As one of Europe's leading IT companies, we recognize
the need for a standard way to describe and manage all the applications
and resources within the data center," said Ron Sheen, Vice President,
Engineering at the American subsidiary of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "A
cross-platform DCML specification will allow systems to exchange information
seamlessly across the data center, an imperative first step in the march
towards utility computing. This goal coincides with our commitment to
provide automated high availability and scalability to our customers.
We endorse the DCML initiative as a means of connecting these systems
and helping customers save time and lower their IT costs."
In mid-October, several leading technology companies launched DCML, the
first open standard for the data center. DCML promises to be to the data
center what HTML was to the Internet, providing the industry's first vendor-neutral,
open standard language to describe disparate data center environments.
For bold technology initiatives such as utility computing to take hold,
a common language that binds the various elements in a data center together
needs to be embraced. Today, DCML is supported by thirty-seven companies
seeking to bring greater operational efficiencies and increased visibility into the data center. DCML members include Opsware,
EDS, Computer Associates, BEA Systems, Mercury Interactive, Tibco, Micromuse,
BMC Software, Fujitsu Siemens,
Marimba, Akamai Technologies, NetIQ, Tripwire, Inkra Networks, Egenera,
ITM Software, AlterPoint, BladeLogic, Blue Titan, Centrata, Configuresoft,
Consera, Ejasent, Euclid, Inflow, Racemi, Relicore, F5 Networks, Aperture Technologies, Collation Inc., Amphus Inc., OSA Technologies,
Connectria, Vieo, Invio, Rendition Networks, and Evident Software.
About The DCML Organization
The DCML Organization is an open, independent, vendor neutral, non-profit
corporation being formed to create an open, freely licensed specification,
Data Center Markup Language (DCML), and to encourage its broad adoption.
DCML is the first standard that provides a structured model and encoding
to describe, construct, replicate and recover data center environments
and elements. DCML is designed to provide a mechanism to enable data center automation, utility computing and system management solutions to exchange
information about the environment to make utility computing a reality.
In addition to developing specifications, the organization intends to
work with formal standards bodies, enable and administer certification
and compliance programs, and perform user and market education. For more
information about how to join the DCML Organization, or to learn more
about planned activities and DCML, visit http://www.dcml.org
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