CAMP allows the cloud to spread itself wide
IT companies, including Oracle, Rackspace, CloudBees, Cloudsoft Corporation, Huawei, Red Hat, and Software AG have announced Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), which is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) management Application Programming Interface (API) specification. The development for industry standard is all set to be submitted to Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). So what does all of this exactly mean for the clouds? It will give them portability, which has been a request for quite some time now.
CAMP would like to offer a common thread for the development of multi-cloud management tools. The company would also like to offer a REST-based approach application to customers and cloud providers. Typically, CAMP is used to move an on-premise application to the cloud (private or public) as well as redeployment of such applications across cloud platforms from multiple vendors.
According to Adrian Otto, senior technology strategist of Rackspace, the company wants the cloud to be wide open so that customers have the freedom of choice.
“CAMP offers a way to enable application portability between public and private clouds, and even between cloud service providers offering similar Platform-as-a-Service solutions,” Otto said.
With the operability between platform clouds that CAMP offers, clients are able to target numerous clouds with one interface. Applications can also be spread wide across platform clouds and be managed at the same time without the use of a specialized adaptor that would manage the content running in each individual cloud.
Because so many applications being spread across the cloud, backing up is important. This is where Quantum’s Q-Cloud comes in. Q-Cloud is a new cloud-based and backup recovery subscription service, hat will back up both physical and virtual infrastructures.
“Quantum has focused on enabling better backups through deduplication methodologies, as well as virtualization-optimized data protection mechanisms,” Jason Buffington said, who is the senior analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group.
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