New members expand vertical market reach into aerospace, advertising, and increase depth in banking sector
MORRISTOWN – NJ, January 26, 2011 TM Forum announced today the addition of seven major enterprises from a variety of verticals to its Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC). As industry-leading innovators, these companies join ECLC to help create a path forward for aggressive use of cloud services, while realizing the promises of financial gains and business flexibility.
The new members include:
•Boeing
•Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) of the US Department of Defense
•Dassault Systemes
•ING
•McCann Worldgroup
•Northrop-Grumman
•State Street Financial
TM Forum’s ECLC provides a forum for enterprise cloud users to share requirements and drive the development of best practices and standards that will remove the barriers to deployment and adoption of cloud services. By leading standards development with reference implementations contributed by ECLC members, and enabling collaboration with suppliers based on real requirements, the ECLC is expected to accelerate the adoption of cloud services within major enterprise IT.
These new members join ECLC members to define business and technical requirements for standardizing key aspects of deploying cloud services including:
•Enterprise-Grade External Compute IaaS;
•Database-as-a-Service;
•Stateless Compute;
•Unified Desk Top; and
•Service Definitions (Taxonomy)
For more information about TM Forum’s ECLC visit
www.tmforum.org.
Key Facts:
•This news follows the announcement the ECLC has delivered the industry’s first set of Enterprise-Grade External Compute Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Requirements, now available to all TM Forum members.
•Formed in 2009 by Deutsche Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia as the founding members, TM Forum’s ECLC represents the users of cloud services within the TM Forum’s Cloud Services Initiative, which aims to stimulate growth of a vibrant and open marketplace for cloud services by bringing together the entire eco-system of enterprise users and cloud providers.
•The role of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council is to develop common approaches on important aspects of cloud services such as common terminology, common approaches to allow transparent movement from supplier to supplier; security issues, benchmarking and more.
•Barriers to deploying cloud services include such challenges as data portability, security of data, interoperability, service level agreements between multiple parties, and a common language to define services. Standardizing in these areas will greatly simplify the business agreements and business processes needed to purchase, deploy, monitor and manage cloud services, and helps both the cloud service provider and enterprise customer communities in working with each other and with partners.
•The ECLC focuses on enterprise customer requirements being comprehensive, clear and well-articulated and are driving the engagement of both technical and non-technical standards.
•Members of the Cloud Services Initiative include some of the world’s largest technology vendors including CA, Cisco, HP, IBM, and Microsoft, leading service providers such as AT&T, BT and Telstra and large enterprise users such as Deutsche Bank and The Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
•Sean Kelley, Chief Information Officer, Asset Management Division & Platform Services Group, Deutsche Bank is the chairman of the ECLC.
Quotes:
ING
“ING sees real value in joining the ECLC to help drive the adoption of cloud services. Bringing together cloud innovators from multiple industries to work together to share knowledge and drive standards and best practices is invaluable. At ING, cloud is an important part of our future to ensure we have agility in meeting our IT demands, while managing down costs. The ECLC provides a beneficial forum for businesses coupling with cloud services providers.”
Tony Kerrison, CTO-Head of Infrastructure Services, ING
