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FEATURES
Feature: Mark Carlson, VP of Alliances
By Mark Carlson, VP of Alliances
DMTF highly values working collaboratively with affiliated industry
organizations, and encourages the participation of standards definition
organizations in the development of DMTF standards.
Last month, DMTF jointly hosted the third annual Alliance Partner Technical Symposium (APTS)
with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to accelerate coordination of the
latest work from all DMTF Alliance Partners. The four-day event included
meetings to address the technical work of interest to each of DMTF’s Alliance Partners. Together we worked to
divide and conquer the issues in the enterprise, especially those in
systems and storage management domains.
We were also pleased to host the inaugural Green Summit in conjunction
with APTS, which included participation from SNIA's Green Storage
Technical Working Group and The
Green Grid. The Green Summit was the first technical summit in which
multiple organizations collaborated to manage the power and cooling
aspects of data center equipment through standard models and interfaces.
The day-long summit involved presentations from each group and included
creative discussions of further collaboration. With a successful first
summit under our belt, we hope to host another Green Summit in
2009.
With increased participation this year, APTS 2008 proved to be a very
successful event. On behalf of DMTF, I would like to extend my
appreciation to SNIA for being the primary sponsor for APTS, and I would
also like to thank everyone who helped make this event a success. We
look forward to hosting APTS 2009 in San Jose during the March time
frame again.
Looking ahead, we have been working diligently to plan the second
international DMTF Academic Alliance workshop on Systems and
Virtualization Management (SVM08).The theme for
this year’s workshop is standards and new technologies, and will take
place in Munich, Germany, on October 21-22. The goal of SVM08 is to
illuminate standards and research issues in areas such as: the
implication of virtualization on distributed systems management;
advances in information models and protocols aid in managing
virtualization; problems incurred when managing virtualized systems and
services; and how management itself might benefit from
virtualization.
I am thrilled with all the work that has been done within the Alliance
Committee, and encourage you to learn more about the synergistic DMTF
Alliance Partner work registers here. If
you have any comments about the DMTF Alliance Committee or the Academic
Alliance program, please feel free to contact me at vp-alliances@dmtf.org.
Alliance Partner Feature: The Open Group
This month we spotlight DMTF Alliance Partner The Open Group, a vendor and
technology-neutral consortium that is dedicated to enabling access to
integrated information within and between enterprises based on open
standards and global interoperability. The consortium’s global
membership represents both commercial and government enterprises:
Capgemini, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, US Department of Defense,
NASA, and many others.
DMTF and The Open Group have collaborated for
a number of years to advance multi-vendor interoperability in the
systems management environment. In May 2007, DMTF and The Open Group,
along with fellow alliance partner the Network Applications Consortium
(NAC), announced the publication of the
Core Identifier Framework Matrix, a document that provides a
reference point for identifier classifications, and provides a basis for
the selection of an identifier form for a global standard common core
identifier.
The Open Group and DMTF are currently working together on a number of
projects including the Application Response Management Group and
co-sponsoring the Application Working Group. The alliance partners have
also worked with the NAC to publish the Core Identifier Framework
Matrix.
The Open Group will host its twenty-first Enterprise Architecture
Practitioners Conference on July 21-23 in Chicago, Illinois.
This conference is a globally recognized event created by and for
enterprise architects to examine a wide variety of topics impacting the
profession. The July meeting, which is also held in conjunction with The
Open Group’s Members Meeting, will seek to detail the core elements of
the creation and implementation of a Government Enterprise
Architecture.
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