  Message from the Chairman: Our Alliances Further InnovationBy Mike Baskey, DMTF Chairman This month, I’d like to highlight the growing set of strategic alliances that DMTF has developed with related technology groups to significantly enhance our collective impact on the industry. We encourage DMTF members to think of ways to optimize these existing relationships, as well as seek new opportunities for additional engagements. Many of you may be aware of our alliance with SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) and the creation of the SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification). DMTF models and profiles form the foundation of that initiative, which is a testament to how these two groups continue to collaborate to revolutionize storage management. This month, we are announcing our relationship with The Green Grid, a new, cutting-edge organization that will leverage the work we have done in server management with CIM (Common Information Model) and WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management) to build a set of standard services for managing energy in the data center. By working across the spectrum of our alliances, DMTF gains the ability to help build a comprehensive set of management solutions across the breadth of resource domains, with additional depth provided by experts in the fields of telecom (TM Forum), grid/virtualization (Open Grid Forum), blades (Blade Systems Alliance), printers (Printer Working Group), and many others. As part of these alliances, we are also facing new challenges in
working with existing models. A good example is the initiative with
TM Forum around CIM-SID
synergy–where we need more of a federated model. Our recent
CMDB federation specification is another example. Sharing
intellectual property between organizations and collaborating with
the subject domain experts to capitalize upon our respective
expertise in the core models are a few of these new challenges that
we’re working through. We are also pursuing another level of alliance partnerships to facilitate work with various vertical industries, such as retail, health, finance and manufacturing. With these industries, vendors are realizing the value of aligning their specific models with those of the global IT industry. This helps these vertical industries that are reliant on good IT practices to deliver better products and service to their customers, and opens up a new level of alliances for DMTF. For example, several standards organizations from the retail vertical industry have already started discussions with DMTF on how they might best leverage CIM. DMTF is rapidly evolving, bringing more opportunities to shape the industry. We invite you, our members, to both bring forward ideas for future developments, as well as help us execute on our alliance work registers (which our VP of Alliances, Mark Carlson, manages and maintains). I encourage you to check out the current set of alliance partners and read the work registers, think of ways to optimize these relationships, as well as seek opportunities for additional engagements. We can all be stronger by working together, both within DMTF and within the industry. Please contact me with any questions or comments at chair@dmtf.org.
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