Winston Bumpus, director of standards architecture at VMware, a 38-year industry veteran who chairs the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standards organization, talked about virtualization and standards. After taking a poll of the 60 or so session attendees and finding out that more than half were directly involved with the management of datacenters, he reminded them, “As IT customers, you have a lot of power. You drive the standards.” Bumpus also said that virtualization isn’t a new technology, that it’s been around for a decade or more but it is changing, hence the need for virtualization standards. Standards are important, he joked, even though it seems at time there’s an endless number of them.
Virtualization, SOA, And Cloud Computing at 2008 LinuxWorld Expo
August 6, 2008