LAS VEGAS, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA WORLD -- CA
Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) today announced the debut of Cloud
Commons, a collaborative community and website for IT professionals
seeking insights into how to best use cloud computing to improve
how IT supports business objectives.
The goal of Cloud Commons will be to provide an information-rich
environment where IT professionals can expand their knowledge and
obtain pertinent information about enterprise cloud computing from
across the industry. Cloud Commons will enable IT professionals to
contribute to and take advantage of rigorously quantified
assessments of available cloud services. By sharing
experiences and expertise, participants will be able to make
well-informed tactical and strategic IT sourcing and management
decisions based on a broad spectrum of timely cloud-related content
and best practices from like-minded peers, advice from industry
experts, and an extensive directory of cloud providers and
services.
In addition to CA Technologies, which is sponsoring the site,
foundational members of the Cloud Commons initiative include TM
Forum, Red Hat, Carnegie Mellon University and Insight Investments,
which is hosting the site.
"Demand for cloud services holds significant potential for the
technology and communications industries, but many barriers still
exist to widespread adoption at an enterprise level," said
Martin Creaner, president, TM Forum.
"We are fully supportive of this type of initiative to improve the
uptake and development of a vibrant and open cloud services
market."
"As a foundation partner for CA's Cloud Commons, we look forward
to providing continued leadership in driving the next wave of
technology evolution through cloud computing," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and GM, Cloud
business unit at Red Hat. "With the rich cloud content and
resources available through Cloud Commons, enterprises will be
further enabled to unlock the value of the cloud."
Among the key components of the site will be:
- Service Measurement Index (SMI), being developed by
Carnegie Mellon University, a standard
for quantifying and evaluating services, addressing the need for
industry-wide, globally accepted measures for calculating the
benefits and risks of cloud computing services.
- A marketplace of cloud computing service offerings. This
marketplace is expected to include vendor service ratings to enable
participants to compare alternate service options.
- An area that will allow participants to provide qualitative
feedback on their experience with third-party cloud services.
- Features that will encourage peer collaboration and networking,
permitting community commentary on content posted on the site and
enable the sharing of cloud best practices.
- Articles from industry analysts and subject matter experts,
blog feeds from industry thought leaders, white papers and stories
on real experiences from IT professionals.
CA Technologies invested in initial independent research to
provide starting-point information about the many cloud services.
On-going community participation will be able to build on and
expand this information, while also adding commentary and entirely
new content. The more than 5,000 customers at CA World 2010
can be among the first to contribute their expertise and
experiences to the site. Future planned additions are planned
to include hosted web casts and webinars delivered by subject
matter experts on cloud topics, and content in podcast and video
formats.
"Today, there is no comprehensive, unbiased source that solicits
and aggregates the most current and relevant knowledge about cloud
computing and the accumulated, actual experiences that
organizations are having with the cloud," said David Hodgson, senior vice president of the
Cloud Products & Solutions business line at CA Technologies.
"Cloud Commons will address this need — providing IT professionals
with situational awareness and visibility into what is possible
with the cloud."
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and registration details, visit http://www.ca.com/caworld.
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and
solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from
mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies' innovative
products and services provide the insight and control essential for
IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of
the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving
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