The Open Data Center AllianceSM is working actively to shape the future of cloud computing — a future based on open, interoperable standards. Our membership includes more than 300 companies spanning multiple continents and industries. We welcome companies who share our vision of seamless, secure cloud computing.

Executive Director, George Goodman, reviews the history of the Open Data Center Alliance and outlines where the organization is heading.

ODCA: 2010 to the Future

The Cloud Maturity Model (CMM) is one of the most widely utilized tools published by the Open Data Center Alliance. Gain a deeper knowledge of the CMM and the best-practices that have shaped this visionary tool over the past five years.   

The objective of the CMM is to help enterprises:

- Evaluate where its IT organization stands in its ability to adopt and integrate cloud services

- Benchmark its IT organization against other industry adopters of cloud

- Build a custom roadmap for their organization towards establishing  more effective Hybrid IT – integrating cloud services to improve, not just change, their IT offering and aligned to their specific needs and objectives. 

Public- and private-sector organizations have used the ODCA’s CMM to guide wide-scale implementations including the selection of cloud solutions and services. Many forward-thinking vendors integrate ODCA best practices into product and service roadmaps to support open standards and interoperability.

Hear from the primary contributors to version 3.0 of the Cloud Maturity Model. These technology and business executives represent top, global  enterprise IT organizations who are on the leading-edge of cloud adoption and organizational maturity.

Cloud Maturity Model 3.0

DevOps addresses inefficiencies that result from keeping operations and development in separate silos. By connecting development and operations, enterprise IT departments can begin to break down the walls.

DevOps defines a set of roles and responsibilities focused on reducing risk in IT deployments and projects. The result is maximized automation, elimination of human error, increased consistency, and reduced time spent on the outages, as well as error detection and prevention brought about by unstable environments. 

In this webinar, ODCA president, Gunnar Menzel, will share perspectives on the DevOps concept, focusing on key challenges it can help resolve and the benefits it can provide.

DevOps: Magnifying Business Value

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Virtualization

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