DMTF Highlights the Momentum of Standards-Based Distributed Management at EMW Conference.

BETHESDA, Md. -- At the Enterprise Management World (EMW) conference, co-owned by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc., (DMTF(R)) -- the industry organization leading the development of management standards and integration technology for enterprise and Internet environments -- joined with technology industry leaders to showcase the best in cross-platform distributed management. Continuing its breakthrough work in delivering the critical standards that enable vendor-independent, end-to-end management in the data center, over the next three days of the conference the DMTF will unveil the latest in server management standards; member technology demonstrations; and tutorials on common management infrastructure components for instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and technology neutral way.

The DMTF's progress is evident at EMW with today's announcement of the latest technology in the group's Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) initiative, the Server Management (SM) Managed Element Addressing specification. The advanced capabilities of SMASH, along with the organization's other critical standards -- including the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) -- streamline integration and reduce costs by enabling multi-vendor interoperability in management systems for the data center and beyond.

Also at EMW, the DMTF's standards form the foundation of numerous product demonstrations from vendors and DMTF Alliance Partners. Technologies featured in EMW demonstrations include SMASH, the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA's) Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), Web Services for Management (WS-Management), and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards' (OASIS') Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM). In addition, several DMTF Alliance Partners will be speaking at the event, including Blade Systems Alliance (BladeS), Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), Network Applications Consortium (NAC), OASIS, and SNIA.

"The DMTF is a major force in the continued momentum toward standards-based distributed management interoperability in the data center and beyond," said Winston Bumpus, president, DMTF. "Providing the key standards that form the foundation for managing everything from servers to storage to Web services, the DMTF continues to aggressively meet the evolving needs of the industry. Whether an end user organization is looking at implementing grids, utility computing or other cost-saving measures, DMTF technologies are the starting point for reducing Total Cost of Ownership."

About the DMTF

With more than 3,000 active participants, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development of management standards and integration technology for enterprise and Internet environments. DMTF standards provide common management infrastructure components for instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and technology neutral way. DMTF technologies include the Common Information Model (CIM), communication/control protocols like its Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) initiative and core management services/utilities. The DMTF and Computerworld are co-owners of Enterprise Management World, the only IT management conference exclusively focused on distributed management technologies for the data center and communications infrastructure. Information about DMTF's standards and activities can be found at www.dmtf.org.