Oct, 2003 : Data Center Operators Launch Standards Effort

📅 October 14, 2003 - Twenty-five major technology companies, including EDS (eds.com) and Opsware (opsware.com), announced today a new standards effort to help facilitate utility computing.

Executives from the companies will officially launch the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) organization (dcml.org) today in Boston, Massachusetts, endorsing the new open standard effort. 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.
Utility computing is a service model that makes computing resources available to the user as needed, charging for specific usage as opposed to a fixed flate rate.
According to the participating companies, DCML would provide the industry with its first data center open standard initiative. The companies said its adoption will help organizations realize the benefits of utility computing: greater operational efficiencies, increased visibility into data center environments and operations and reduced time and cost to implement strategic IT initiatives such as consolidation, disaster recovery, application capacity management, software policy management and data center planning.
DCML will encompass a wide array of data center elements, including network components, storage components, UNIX, Linux, Windows and other servers, software infrastructure and applications.

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