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National Australia Bank is one of the founding members along with giants such as BMW, China Life, Deutsche Bank, Lockheed Martin and Shell. Today the initiative has attracted a membership of more than 280 organisations according to Mr McGee.

The formation of the OCDA is a key plank of Intel's Cloud 2015 initiative, geared at realising its vision for 'a world of interoperable 'federated' clouds; 'automated' movement of software applications and resources; and PC and device-savvy 'client-aware' clouds that know what processing should take place in the cloud or on your laptop, smartphone or other device.'

Intel's role is now as a non-voting technical advisor according to Mr McGee. Membership of the alliance has also been extended to solution providers with Dell, EMC, Parallels and RedHat already signed up.

The initiatives have deliberately steered clear of inviting government participation, preferring to define user steered industry standards rather than get bogged by discussions of regulatory frameworks.