Introducing New STANDARDS For Service-Level Cloud Portability
The specification, called TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications ), intended to go a step further by including high-level elements such as server and storage requirements as well as management policies in a “service template”.
It has provides several advantages
Broad applicability
TOSCA has broad applicability to the topic of cloud computing,” OASIS said in a statement. “The specification touches a wide range of specialty areas – from the actual cloud services and applications to the underlying cloud infrastructure, and from cloud service providers to cloud service and application developers.”
In order to back up its aim of extending to all areas of a cloud service, the TOSCA effort includes participation from a variety of different vendors, including 3M,Google NetApp, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Red Hat and others. The specification is handled by the standards body OASIS.
OASIS stated.“Ultimately, this will benefit the consumers, developers, and providers of cloud-based solutions and provide an essential foundation for even higher-level TOSCA-based vocabularies that could be focused on specific solutions and domains,”