Mar 10, 2004 : DCML Forms Working Groups

📅 March 10, 2004 - The Data Center Markup Language (dcml.org) Organization announced on Wednesday that it has formed a number of technical working groups to further define the DCML specification. The organization has been established to develop the industry's first data center specification, helping facilitate the adoption of utility computing models.

"The formation of the DCML working groups is yet another milestone in the creation of the industry's first open data center standard to enable utility computing," says Louis Blatt, president of the DCML Organization and senior vice president of product strategy at Computer Associates. "By defining the requirements for their specific categories, the working groups will ensure that DCML builds on existing standards to provide a simplified and unified IT platform. DCML will enable organizations to relate IT resources to the applications and services that they support as well as govern the IT infrastructure through policy. This new standard will result in the ability to dynamically reallocate resources based upon changing business priorities."
The groups include the framework, applications and services, and network and server group. The framework group will define the overall approach, concepts and structures fundamental to DCML, the applications and services group is entrusted with defining the interoperability and interdependency specifications of applications and services in the data center, and the network and server group is responsible for defining the portions of DCML specific to the description of data center networking components.