Learn about the TM Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council and how involvement can benefit your company.
Cloud computing offers IT organizations from every vertical the opportunity to shift expenditure away from “business as usual” to models that promote innovation and growth, thereby adding real value.
TM Forum provides the infrastructure and support to the industry to develop the standards and best practices for cloud computing. These standards are absolutely vital to ensure that barriers to adoption are removed and an open and vibrant marketplace is created where:
- There is no vendor lock-in.
- There is a “Pay as you go” transparent cost structure.
- There are balanced workloads.
- Self-service, on-demand provisioning models are the norm.
- There is a flexible and elastic scale up and down model.
- Decreased support costs occur due to automation.
- There is a foundation for Enterprise as a Platform Cloud Services
“We primarily leverage [the Business Process Framework] eTOM for building our cloud services delivery framework, really because it is already a proven framework in the telecom space. There are a lot of similarities in offering telecom and cloud services, so we are leveraging that to get a good start on building a cloud delivery framework.”
– Sunil Lingayat, Technical Director, Northrop Grumann
Cloud services deployment is ramping up rapidly and standards enable that deployment through:
- A new operating model where consuming and offering capabilities “as a Service” achieve unprecedented efficiency and agility. The opportunity for enterprise companies to work together to ensure an optimal, flexible and efficient ecosystem of suppliers and services.
- The ability to identify and utilize enterprise-computing resources which remain significantly underutilized, even with first generation server virtualization.
- Capitalizing on the opportunities to consume infrastructure, platforms and services on-demand and drastically reduce in-house IT operations cost structures.
Enterprise involvement in TM Forum offers a variety of benefits:
- As an enterprise member of TM Forum, you are eligible to become part of the TM Forum’s Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council. This group provides a one of a kind enterprise customer only working group of like-minded IT leaders who are deploying cloud services – and working together to define a standardized set of requirements that will reduce the cost of these deployments.
- TM Forum offers technical, collaborative working groups on key industry issues related to deployment of cloud services. By working with your peers, you can make a difference in defining the future of Virtual Private Cloud services, Database as a Service, Cloud Security & Risk, Cloud SLA Management, Cloud Billing and more.
- Enterprise members, as with all TM Forum members, have open access to TM Forum Frameworx, our library of best practices and standards.
- Being part of the TM Forum provides the ability to drive suppliers of cloud services to meet the requirements of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council.
- Working within TM Forum gives the members of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council a louder voice in other organizations such as NIST.