PORTLAND, OR – June 27, 2011 – Puppet Labs™, a leading provider of open source systems management solutions, today announced that the company has joined the Open Data Center Alliance as an Adopter.
Adopter members of the Open Data Center Alliance represent a broad mix of IT users across the globe who are committed to using the Alliance’s Usage Model Roadmap to guide their data center purchase and planning decisions. Adopter members participate in the annual Alliance meeting, and are approved for membership by the Steering Committee.
Additional activities include:
- Identifying the requirements of data center solutions that meet the challenges facing data centers today and tomorrow
- Defining usage models that support solution deployment in an open, industry-standard and multi-vendor fashion
- Joining in a collective commitment to utilize the Alliance’s Usage Model Roadmap to drive purchasing decisions of data center solutions.
“Puppet Labs is pleased to join a group of IT organizations dedicated to supporting open, interoperable solutions for today’s data centers,” said James Turnbull, VP of Technology Operations at Puppet Labs. “The Open Data Center Alliance shares our commitment to making cloud adoption more feasible to customers.”
About the Open Data Center Alliance
The Open Data Center Alliance is an independent IT consortium led by global organizations who have come together to provide a unified vision for long-term data center and cloud infrastructure requirements through development of vendor-agnostic Open Data Center Usage Models as well as industry collaborations to development cloud standards and adoption. Intel Corporation serves as the technical advisor to the Alliance at the direction of the Steering Committee. Open Data Center Alliance members have committed to the Open Data Center Alliance Usage Model to help guide their data center planning and purchasing decisions.
More information available at www.opendatacenteralliance.org.
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