open cloud consortium (OCC)

The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) is an organization that develops frameworks and reference implementations of cloud solutions, primarily based on open source, in order to compare cloud solutions. In addition, the Open Cloud Consortium develops standards for cloud computing and benchmarks for big data clouds. It operates cloud testbeds as Open Cloud Testbed (OCT) and VirtualNetwork Testbed and is engaged in the creation of a reference model for large clouds.