DCML seeks broader standards support

The Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization is seeking to partner or merge completely with established standards groups in an effort to gain broader industry acceptance. The is working on a draft technical specification, due in the second half of this year, that will provide guidelines for automating administrative tasks in corporate data centers. The DCML specification calls for a standardized way to automatically provision software to servers and other computing gear and apply patches.

The DCML Organization on Thursday sent a request for information regarding potential tie-ups to the Distributed Management Task Force, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, the Object Management Group, and the Enterprise Grid Alliance. The DCML Organization said it is seeking a partnership in which it would liaise on a technical level with a third-party standards organization or the two organizations would merge. There are about 60 members of the DCML Organization.