Management Matters, April 2008	Page 4

Quote of the Month

John Weigelt, national technology officer at Microsoft Canada, said in an eChannelLine article published on March 10, 2008:

“When it comes to their list of IT concerns, businesses tend to rank interoperability near the top. The reason for this is simple. They want to make full use of their existing software investments, minimize the potential for user disruption, and ensure their IT department doesn't have to spend precious time knitting systems together.”

EVENTS

DMTF Technologies to be Featured at MMS 2008

DMTF is proud to again sponsor the 2008 Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), held April 28-May 2 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The organization will have a booth at the event to highlight key DMTF technologies.

The theme of this year’s event is Integrate IT, reflecting the increasingly complex world of IT management and the key role integration has to play in reducing complexity while maximizing flexibility, availability and performance. Sessions, speakers and industry experts will focus on how the latest wave of management solutions support the following:

Integration with your business objectives
Integration across your IT disciplines
Integration between your management products and technologies
Integration across platforms and vendor boundaries

This year's event will once again offer more than 100 technical breakout sessions covering a broad range of management topics. Attendees will have opportunities to meet presenters and discuss session content informally during Q&A and Chalk Talk sessions and more than 9,000 Hands-On Labs.

Click here to view the conference agenda and to access registration information.

Call for Papers Now Available: SVM08

DMTF has issued a call for papers for the Academic Alliance’s second annual Systems and Virtualization Management (SVM) event. The submission deadline is May 2, 2008. This international workshop is dedicated to academic research on standards and new technologies for systems and virtualization management. SVM08, taking place October 21-22 in Garching near Munich, Germany, follows the successful SVM07 conference held last year in Toulouse, France.

The goal of SVM08 is to illuminate related standards and research issues. These include: the implications of virtualization on distributed systems management; the advancements in information models and protocols aid in managing virtualization; new problems that will incur when managing virtualized systems and services; and how management itself might benefit from virtualization. Submissions on topics related to managing distributed systems, virtualization of distributed resources/services, and work in management standardization are thus particularly encouraged.

For more details on submission topics and guidelines, please visit http://www.dmtf.org/svm08/papers/.

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