DCML: What Is It?
DCML addresses the urgent need for interoperability among disparate data center elements, management tools, automation systems and the policies that govern their use. It provides the only open, XML-based specification designed to do for the data center what HTML did for content and IP did for networking… achieve interoperability and render proprietary approaches irrelevant by providing a systematic, vendor-neutral way to describe the data center environment and policies governing the management of the environment – a fundamental requirement for utility computing.
DCML boasts the support and membership of more than 50 leading technology and utility computing companies. It encompasses a wide array of data center elements, including UNIX, Linux, Windows and other servers, software infrastructure and applications, network components and storage components.
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