DCML
DCML: Enabling True Utility Computing
Reader ROI
- Learn how to gain true visibility into your IT organization through blueprinting
- Understand why traditional approaches just don't measure up
- See how EDS is innovating a solution to allow disparate components to speak the same language
You're reading about it daily and have been researching the sites… some are calling it on-demand, others real-time infrastructure or organic IT, and still others adaptive enterprise. While each has potential merits, how do you know what to really believe? And more importantly, if you purchase one of these solutions, how can you be assured that it will easily work with the rest of your EXISTING IT environment?
The answer is you can't… until now.
Success today is contingent upon reducing total cost of ownership. To that end, IT managers have purchased automation and utility tools aimed at replacing traditional approaches to data center management. It's easy to see why. The financial benefits to those who implement these strategies are significant.
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Meet Darrel Thomas
Darrel Thomas is the co-creator and co-author of DCML – the industry standard that promotes interoperability among disparate data center components, management tools and automation systems. Darrel is directly responsible for the Applications and Services component of the language specification and currently serves on the DCML Organization Board of Directors.
Darrel is always innovating solutions to the day's IT problems. Currently, as Chief Technologist of Hosting Services, Darrel leads the technology-to-business strategy design for EDS' initiatives in virtualization, automation, utility, grid computing, and the convergence of agile infrastructure with other Applications, Business Process, and Industry Frameworks. His technology savvy has given him the opportunity to work on many other exciting projects too:
- Creator of the EDS WebVault and Chief Architect for EDS' original Web Hosting offering
- Chief Architect of World Cup USA 1994 where he designed the network, security, results, systems and application architecture for the competition
- Creator and Chief Architect of the world record setting World Cup France 1998 Internet Results Website, which hold 4 Guinness Records for Traffic Management
- Core Architect on the Barcelona Olympics 1992 Results IT Team where he did much of the programming that provided sports results in real-time for more than 50 world championship sporting events
Excessive cost and complexity are serious problems. Nearly 70% of data center costs are tied up in management. And while it is clear that the explosion of servers and applications has driven the need for utility computing, several roadblocks prevent you from realizing the promises of true utility today:
- No one system will be able to manage everything
- New and existing technologies must be able to work together
- Emerging technologies have varying approaches
- Lack of accurate, consolidated information
For utility computing to make the leap from vision to reality, comprehensive interoperability and information exchange among its various components must be possible. And all of these components must interact with the workflow, billing, service initiation and management/monitoring systems. Without a ready exchange of relevant data center information, the full benefit of utility computing will remain elusive. But at EDS we are using innovation to create the solution – DCML.
So what exactly is DCML? Learn more