As we look ahead, DMTF remains firmly focused on advancing the standards, tools, and collaborative frameworks that enable interoperable management across the IT ecosystem. The months ahead will be marked by continued progress in our working groups, the evolution of key specifications, and deeper engagement with industry stakeholders, such as our expanding list of alliance partners, to ensure our specifications remain relevant, scalable, and aligned with real-world needs. With the talent of dedicated members, the organization will continue to support the industry and address end-user challenges by publishing meaningful standards and growing our open-source tools.

As DMTF’s new fiscal year approaches, our membership renewal period is underway - please take steps today to ensure your organization is prepared to renew! Your company’s billing contact should have already received an invoice for the upcoming membership year, which runs April 1 to March 31.

DMTF and the Ultra Accelerator Link™ Consortium, Inc. (UALink™) have agreed to a work register for technical collaboration between the two organizations as part of DMTF’s Alliance Partner program.

DMTF’s Redfish Forum held a live webinar on Thursday, February 5th. Presented by the chairs of the Redfish Forum and hosted on Zoom, this webinar covered the contents of the 2025.4 release.

Did you know that DMTF has a Security Response Task Force (SRTF) and a reporting system for security issues? The Task Force is responsible for coordinating and managing reported security issues or vulnerabilities related to DMTF standards and its open-source sample implementations.

DMTF recently published the latest release of the Common Information Model (CIM) Schema, version 2.56. The fifty-sixth update to CIM since the launch of 2.0, this widely used standard provides a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications, and services.