TM Forums Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council Expansion continues with Seven New Members

MORRISTOWN NJ, 2011 TM Forum announced the addition of seven major enterprises from a variety of verticals to its Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council (ECLC). As industry-leading innovators, these companies join ECLC to help create a path forward for aggressive use of cloud services, while realizing the promises of financial gains and business flexibility.

The new members include:

Boeing
Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) of the US Department of Defense
Dassault Systemes
ING
McCann Worldgroup
Northrop-Grumman
State Street Financial

TM Forums ECLC provides a forum for enterprise cloud users to share requirements and drive the development of best practices and standards that will remove the barriers to deployment and adoption of cloud services. By leading standards development with reference implementations contributed by ECLC members, and enabling collaboration with suppliers based on real requirements, the ECLC is expected to accelerate the adoption of cloud services within major enterprise IT.

These new members join ECLC members to define business and technical requirements for standardizing key aspects of deploying cloud services including:

Enterprise-Grade External Compute IaaS;
Database-as-a-Service;
Stateless Compute;
Unified Desk Top; and
Service Definitions (Taxonomy)