Management Matters, August 2008	Page 4

EVENTS

SMF Plugfest in August

The System Management Forum is planning a SMASH and DASH Plugfest during August 26-28 in Colorado Springs, Colo. All DMTF member companies that have implementations, management applications or tools that expose or exercise SMASH and DASH interfaces are welcome to participate. Participation is free of charge. For more information please e-mail smf-leadership@dmtf.org.

DMTF Sponsors the Storage Developer Conference

DMTF is proud to once again sponsor the Storage Developer Conference on September 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. Now in its fourth year and again expected to draw more than 250 developers and engineers participating in more than 50 sessions in multiple tracks, the Storage Developer Conference is the only event created by the storage industry for the storage industry.

SDC provides the information and know-how to further advance solutions with features to help shorten time to market for advanced solutions. This increases acceptability and interoperability in production environments and help participants understand where storage technologies are heading. In addition, plans are being finalized for the CIFS and iSCSI plugfests.

For the full conference agenda and registration information, click here.

Register Early for MDC 2008

Registration is now open for the fourth annual Management Developers Conference (MDC), to be held November 17-20 in Santa Clara, Calif.

The Management Developers Conference is the Industry's only developer conference dedicated to standards based system and network management technologies including:

Management Initiatives

Common Diagnostic Model (CDM)
Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH)
Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH)
Storage Management Initiative (SMI)
Virtualization

Management Profiles

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)

Web Services for Management (WS-Management)
Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)

CIM-XML

Common Information Model (CIM)

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

and other standards based management technologies.

Registration information for MDC 2008 is available here.

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