Recent News
20 Aug 13
Last Chance to Register for VMworld and Plan to Stop by and See Us!
With the conference quickly approaching, it is time to register now for VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, August 25-29. Be sure to stop by DMTF booth #224 to learn about the latest developments, validation and promotion of infrastructure management standards.
7 Aug 13
Tutorial on Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) – Webinar Available
Register now to join us live, Thursday, August 8, at 1:00 p.m. PDT / 4:00 p.m. EDT, for an in-depth no-cost BrightTALK webinar on the DMTF’s Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI). If you’re unable to join live, a replay will be available for on demand viewing following the session airing.
6 Aug 13
Cloud Service Brokers: What You Need to Know
In this article on InfoQ, Winston Bumpus, DMTF Chair of the Board, provides his perspective on cloud service brokers and the role standards play in cloud management:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/
5 Aug 13
Join Us At VMworld 2013
Registration is now open for VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, August 25-29. Please be sure to stop by DMTF booth #224 to learn about the latest developments, validation and promotion of infrastructure management standards. VMworld attendees can take advantage of more than 350 in-depth sessions, 26 hands-on labs, 275 sponsors and exhibitors, and networking opportunities with industry experts and other IT professionals. Register now and transform your conventional IT remedies into seamless, agile solutions that dramatically simplify your operations.
30 Jul 13
DMTF and SNIA Successfully Demonstrate Interoperable Standards-Based Cloud Management
On July 24, 2013, at the Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF’s) co-located Alliance Partner Technical Symposium and Management Developers Conference events, DMTF and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) successfully demonstrated interoperable cloud management utilizing three existing cloud standards simultaneously. For the first time, the DMTF’s Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) and Open Virtual Format (OVF), an ISO standard, and SNIA’s Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), also an ISO standard, were shown in multi-vendor implementations. This was part of a series of Cloud Plugfests, the next of which will take place during Cloud Interoperability Week, being held September 16-20, 2013, in Madrid, Spain, and simultaneously in the U.S. in Santa Clara, Calif.
17 Jul 13
DMTF launches BrightTALK channel on website
The DMTF has launched their BrightTALK channel within the Learning Center at dmtf.org/education/webinars. You can find all of DMTF's free webinars here and view them without leaving the site.
12 Jul 13
NetApp Joins DMTF OSDDC Incubator
NetApp, who holds positions on DMTF’s Governing Board, Marketing Committee and Technical Committee, announced that they have joined DMTF's newly-created Open Software Defined Data Center (OSDDC) Incubator group. Read more at https://communities.netapp.
12 Jul 13
DMTF Japanese Website Updated
The DMTF Japan Marketing Subcommittee has updated the DMTF Japanese website with additional pages and two new translated documents, “Architecture for Managing Clouds” and “Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) Primer". Visit www.dmtf.org/jp.
13 Mar 13
Join DMTF at MMS 2013!
Don’t miss DMTF at the 2013 Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), April 8-12 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.
14 Feb 13
BrightTALK Virtualization and Cloud Management Summit Materials Now Available
DMTF recently participated in two panels during BrightTALK’s Virtualization and Cloud Management Summit. View the materials now.