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OVF and the future of disaster recovery
I have written extensively in this space on the current status and the future directions of the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). This standard recently achieved ANSI standard approval as well. The ability to define workloads, inclusive of virtual machine instance counts and network topology, in an industry-standard format is a powerful tool.One area I have not explored in much ...
OVF and cloud portability
A persistent promise of the OVFstandard has been portability of virtual system images between the various hypervisors and their associated management tools. Up to now, this has been a relatively minor concern in the market because most "cloud computing" ventures seem to leverage a single vendor for the underlying infrastructure. This has held true for projects in the enterprise data center and for the pure ...