paragraph describing the interoperability demonstration

["Probst, Richard" <richard.probst@sap.com>]

TOSCA Interop SC,

 

I had the action item to draft a paragraph describing the interoperability demonstration. Here it is:

 

 

The OASIS TOSCA Interoperability Demonstration shows that TOSCA can be used to describe typical enterprise applications – in this case, a customer relationship management (CRM) application running on top of a relational database – and also that TOSCA service templates can be exchanged between cloud orchestration tools from different vendors. The original objectives of the TOSCA technical committee were to define a language to support “semi-automatic creation and management of application layer services” and “application portability across alternative cloud implementations”. That second objective could have been satisfied by requiring the use of the same cloud orchestration tool on multiple cloud implementations, but the interoperability demonstration shows something even more impressive: different cloud orchestration tools from different vendors can all interpret and run TOSCA service templates the same way. As a result, enterprise customers can move applications from one cloud to another, even when the clouds use different cloud orchestration solutions, and application developers can offer service templates with their applications that specify how to manage the application on a cloud. Portability plus semi-automatic management equals expanded customer choice and improved cost, reliability and time-to-value.

 

 

Best,

  --Richard