Management Matters, July 2008	Page 3

EVENTS

Recap on the Burton Group Catalyst Conference

DMTF recently hosted a hospitality suite at the Burton Group Catalyst 2008 Conference on June 26 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, Calif. DMTF featured a draft of the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and other standards-based virtual machine managements from VMWare, Citrix and Novell.

Thank you to the nine member company participants who contributed to this successful event.

Also at Catalyst, DMTF President Winston Bumpus participated in a roundtable discussion to explore how management interoperability standards can optimize the dynamic data center. The round table was hosted by Drue Reeves, VP and Research Director at the Burton Group. Other participants included Bill Erdman of Cisco, Jeff Gerber of HP and Eric Anderson of Novell.

Register for NGDC 2008

Don't forget to register for the Next Generation Data Center Conference & Expo in San Francisco, August 4 - 7. Sign up today and discover real-world, ready-to-deploy solutions to transform every element of your infrastructure-and leverage the latest innovations for advanced storage, networking, consolidation, virtualization, and green power to build a robust platform for long-term business growth and efficiency.

At NGDC this year, you'll have the opportunity to:

Get practical, real-world guidance and inspiration from more than 75 technical sessions and visionary keynotes by the industry's top practitioners
Brainstorm, network and share experiences at exciting special events with peers from throughout the IT community
Discover products, services and complete solutions for every part of your data infrastructure from more than 200 key exhibitors

Also be sure to check out DMTF President Winston Bumpus' presentation entitled "Simplifying Virtualization Management: From Deployment to Operational Management" on August 6 from 3-4 p.m. Winston's session will focus on how DMTF management standards for server and client management have been crucial in reducing complexity and cost via management interoperability. Winston will also discuss how DMTF has focused on developing standards for managing the lifecycle of a virtualized environment.

Click here to take advantage of Early Bird Savings (this applies if you register before July 11) and your DMTF membership discount.

SMF Plugfest in August

The System Management Forum is planning a SMASH and DASH Plugfest during August 26-28 in Colorado Springs, Colo. All DMTF member companies that have implementations, management applications or tools that expose or exercise SMASH and DASH interfaces are welcome to participate. Participation is free of charge. For more information please e-mail smf-leadership@dmtf.org.

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