CA Technologies Shapes New Cloud Standard with the MODAClouds Project

10/10/2013 - 10:00

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) has unveiled its participation in MODAClouds, a collaborative research project that aims to facilitate interoperability between heterogeneous Cloud platforms. The MODAClouds project is financed in part by the European Commission and run by a consortium of ten partners (software vendors, IT services companies, research bodies and universities). It aims to remove the constraints of deployment, portability and reversibility for end users of Cloud services.

Many professional associations are looking for Cloud services which are interoperable, reversible and based on open standards. MODAClouds’ objective is to give these companies the means to optimally manage their relationships with their Cloud providers.

In October 2012, after a call for project submissions focused on interoperability for Cloud services, the European Commission selected the MODAClouds program over dozens of other competing programs. The budget for this project is approximately 9 million Euros. While the European Commission contributes approximately two-thirds of this amount, the partners contribute the balance.

As companies adopt more and more private Cloud services, the selection of which Cloud provider to work with has become a crucial decision point. Moreover, multi-Cloud strategies are being implemented. They consist of using two or more Cloud services from different suppliers in parallel in order to mitigate the risk of losing data or connectivity interruptions due to an isolated outage.

The MODAClouds project will address the multimodal Cloud, the issues of vendor lock-in and dependence, and KPIs for availability and quality of service. The research project will also explore the emergence of a standard criteria to select and compare the functionalities of Cloud services.

“It’s an honour for CA Labs to participate with a consortium on the cutting edge of innovation”, states Victor Muntés, Director, CA Labs at CA Technologies. “As the depth and breadth of the Cloud ecosystem reaches critical mass, the need for a self-sustaining collaborative community proves to be more and more obvious in order to aggregate, provide, or consume Cloud services”.

Marco Comastri, President EMEA at CA Technologies, comments, “CA Technologies is engaged in a similar initiative, called the Service Measurement Index (SMI) or Cloud Commons, to set standards for measuring and comparing business services – whether delivered on premise or via cloud. Our research engagement with MODAClouds furthers our commitment to help our customers. We are proud to engage on this European project with prestigious partners and with the support of the European Commission”, he concludes.

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