Quote of the Month
Charlie Babcock said, in an excerpt from “The Future of
Virtualization and What That Means for CIOs” in an
Aug. 21, 2007 article from InformationWeek:
“Server virtualization will be followed by desktop
virtualization; storage is already virtualized or is well on its
way toward being virtualized; network access, network resource
management, is or will be virtualized along with these other
developments. As most of the data center resources become
virtualized, it will be possible to move to new ways of doing
things. Virtualization will cease to be a feature of some
elements of the data center. Rather, data centers enjoying a
high degree of virtualization will be the standard way of doing
business.”
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From the VP of Finance: How You Support the DMTF Mission -
Cont'd
Our team appreciates your timely payment of membership dues! This
enables us as an organization to spend more time and energy on all the
projects that contribute to the core DMTF mission.
We hope that you will take the time to renew
your dues promptly. DMTF membership provides many valuable benefits, including:
- Front-line access to DMTF standards
- The opportunity to participate in the process of defining these
standards
- The synergy of working with others who are addressing similar
implementation issues
For more information about the VP of Finance role, or if you have
questions about membership dues, please feel free to contact DMTF or me,
Jishnu Mukerji, VP of Finance, at treasurer@dmtf.org.
REGULARS
2007 Member Survey Results: Interoperability
In this series, DMTF continues to report on findings from its annual
member survey conducted in January 2007. About 135 members responded at
length to our survey. We asked the members to select the most important
interoperability priority for their company.
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Most Important
Interoperability Priority for Member Companies
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Percent Response
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For any CIM/WBEM Server
to work with my WBEM client
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20.7%
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For any CIM/WBEM Server
to work with my provider
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19.3%
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For any CIM/WBEM Server
to support plug & play and isolation of providers
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11.1%
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Support for multiple
providers for a single class with a CIM namespace
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8.9%
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Support for a variety
of methods for a CIM/WBEM Server, to communicate with other clients
(e.g. RMI)
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8.1%
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Don't Know
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28.9%
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Other:
- SMASH Interoperability
- Installation and productization
- For non-CIM based applications to expose management data to
CIM-based clients
- More profiles
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3%
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