Management Matters, June 2008	Page 7

MDC Call for Presentations Deadline

The fourth annual Management Developers Conference (MDC), held November 17-20 in Santa Clara, Calif. has issued a call for presentations. MDC encourages participation by individuals and organizations with standards, research or practical experience for standards-based management, including government and commercial users, universities, research laboratories and early adopters.

As an MDC presenter, you'll benefit from the prestige and visibility associated with participating in this year’s highly anticipated conference program. Individuals interested in presenting need to submit an abstract by Tuesday, July 1, 2008, for consideration.

Specific areas of interest for MDC 2008 include standards, research and practical experience for standards-based management for the following:

* Management Initiatives (CDM, DASH, SMASH, SMI and Virtualization)
* Developer tools and infrastructure
* Developer API
* Client Application Development
* Provider Development
* Emerging Technologies
* Real-world solutions & experiences

For details on how to submit an abstract, please click here.

REGULARS

2008 Member Survey Results: Key DMTF Areas

In this series, DMTF continues to report findings from its annual member survey conducted in January 2008. About 106 members responded at length to our survey. We asked members to select key areas that the DMTF is working on that interest members the most.

Key DMTF Areas
CIM Clients interoperability across CIM Servers	41.5%
Desktop and Mobile Management	29.2%
Host Virtualization	55.7%
Platform Management Components Intercommunications	21.7%
Profiles	35.8%
Security	25.5%
Server Management	50.0%
Storage Management	29.2%
System Management	51.9%
Telco/Network Management	11.3%
Web Services Management	43.4%
Other	7.5%