Kulacom Jordan, a leading telecom operator, has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, an IT consortium formed to address the technical requirements needed for future datacenters and cloud infrastructure.

“As part of the alliance, Kulacom will collaborate with other members to engage the industry to innovate on open standards, move the Internet to its next stage of development, and deliver an open, interoperable and secure cloud for all business and consumer uses,” stated Hazim Alaeddin, Kulacom Jordan’s CEO.

The alliance is developing and delivering an Open Data Center Usage Model Roadmap, which defines Usage Model requirements to resolve key IT challenges and fulfill cloud infrastructure needs into the future.

In support of its mission, the alliance has established five technical workgroups focused on infrastructure, management, security, services and government/ecosystem.

The Open Data Center Alliance is led by a steering committee comprised of 10 global IT leaders, which include BMW, China Life, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, National Australia Bank, Shell, Terremark and UBS, and joined, by over 70 members representing a broad array of industries including enterprise IT, solutions providers and telcos.-TradeArabia News Service