DMTFは多くのハードウェアベンダー、ソフトウェアベンダー、サービスベンダーが採用する管理標準を定義しています。標準に基づく管理をすることで、将来の独自性の問題を心配することなく、今、一番よい製品を選ぶことができます。
主な取り組み：DMTFクラウド管理ワークグループ
クラウドシステムの管理における相互運用性に取り組むワーキンググループを結成
企業のIT管理者たちは、顧客によりよいサービスを提供し、IT関連のコストを抑え、運用効率を改善するために、クラウド・コンピューティングや仮想化といったテクノロジーの導入を急速に進めています。
DMTFのクラウド管理ワークグループ（CMWG）は、相互運用性を促進するクラウド・リソース管理プロトコルやパッケージング・フォーマット、セキュリティ機構の開発を通し、クラウド環境間の相互通信の標準化に取り組んでいきます。
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Management Initiatives
Management initiatives are built upon DMTF technologies, and deliver functionality to specific vertical applications and industries. Management Initiatives include:
- Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) Initiative
- Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) Initiative
- Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Initiative
- Virtualization Management (VMAN) Initiative
DMTF Technologies (Standards)
Management standards are:
- Common Information Model (CIM)
- CIM is a common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall management information in a network/enterprise environment. The CIM effort includes the CIM Schema as well as the CIM Infrastructure. CIM is a common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall management information in a network/enterprise environment.
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
- WBEM is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. The WBEM effort includes the WBM protocols and bindings as well as WBEM Infrastructure.
- Alert Standard Format (ASF)
- This specification defines remote control and alerting interfaces that best serve clients' OS-absent environments.
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- DMTF’s Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is a packaging standard designed to address the portability and deployment of virtual appliances.
- System Management BIOS (SMBIOS)
- The SMBIOS Specification addresses how motherboard and system vendors present management information about their products in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on x86 architecture systems.
- Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
- DMI generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop pc, notebook or server. Due to the rapid advancement of DMTF technologies, such as CIM, the DMTF defined an "End of Life" process for DMI, which ended March 31, 2005.
- Configuration Management Database Federation (CMDBF)
- The Configuration Management Database Federation (CMDBf) standard facilitates the sharing of information between configuration management databases (CMDBs) and other management data repositories (MDRs).
- Platform Management Components Intercommunication (PMCI) Standards
- The PMCI standards provide a comprehensive, common architecture for intercommunications among management subsystem components.