Management Matters, April 2008
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Alliance Partner Feature: Storage Networking Industry AssociationThe Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and DMTF have been collaborating since 1999 to advance the adoption of storage networks as complete and trusted solutions. The DMTF’s alliance partnership with the SNIA has provided a channel for the DMTF to receive requirements, design input and standards review feedback from the SNIA, while also delivering a channel for the SNIA to receive requirements and design input and standards review feedback from the DMTF. SNIA has been working on DMTF’s Common Information Model (CIM) and the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards and has been contributing work to the DMTF via the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), an ANSI INCITS ratified SNIA storage technology that is based upon the aforementioned DMTF standards. DMTF is also relying on SNIA to supply storage management models for the continued development of CIM. This includes the management of, but is not limited to, Storage Arrays, File Systems including Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, Fibre Channel Fabrics, Host based storage and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). This month, DMTF members can get CIM and WBEM technical training at sessions offered by SNIA. To learn more about this technical training opportunity, click here. SNIA is a non-profit organization committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. Made up of some 400 member companies and nearly 7,000 individuals spanning the global storage market, the SNIA connects the IT industry with end-to-end storage and information management solutions. To learn more about the DMTF and SNIA alliance partner work register, click here. Technical Training OpportunitiesDMTF members are encouraged to take advantage of technical training courses being offered by our alliance partner - the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Current course offerings include the Common Information Model (CIM), Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), and Common Management Provider Interface (CMPI). Future classes will cover the Common Diagnostic Model (CDM), Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware, (DASH), Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH), Storage Management Initiative (SMI), and WS-Management. Delivering high impact training from industry experts, the classes are designed to accelerate adoption of DMTF standards based management technologies and shorten your standards based products’ time to market. The course "Understanding CIM and WBEM" will take place from April 15-16 at the SNIA Tech Center in Colorado Springs. For more information and details click here. |
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