Membership application and renewal time is upon us! As we conclude the final quarter of our fiscal year, we take stock in work completed in 2014 and continue to build on that work in 2015. Thanks to the committed efforts of our leadership and members, the groundwork has been laid for great progress in the coming year.
• To align with today’s rapid development cycles, the DMTF reorganized to increase the agility of work groups and expedite standards publication. DMTF process overhead is now the lowest of any recognized standards body, second to none.
• We created the Network Management Initiative (NETMAN), specifying manageability of network services thus complementing DMTF's existing work in compute and storage (with SNIA) manageability. We formed an alliance partnership with ETSI-NFV, enabling manageability of Network Function Virtualization. In 2015, these efforts will provide the compute, storage and network manageability required by the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).
• We created Scalable Platforms Management Forum (SPMF), enabling a RESTful HTTP manageability interface for platforms -- meeting the needs of cloud service providers. Since initiating the work in September of 2014, we have published no less than seven work-in-progress releases with more on the horizon.
• DMTF published new work based on recent use cases of the Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI). In addition, the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) working group published a new roadmap to include further cloud-based features and deliverables.
• The Open Software Defined Data Center (OSDDC) Incubator released a whitepaper providing an industry view of its current status and the future of SDDC.
• The release of the Cloud Auditing Data Federation’s (CADF) Data Format and Interface Definitions 1.0. More than a format, the CADF standard defines a full event model that anyone can use to fill in essential data needed to certify, self-manage and self-audit application security in cloud environments.
• The DMTF developed new projects, specifically software -- complementing the development of standard specifications and allowing for future opportunities to contribute to and collaborate with Open Source efforts.
• Four DMTF Standards, VMAN, OVF, WS-MAN and SM CLP, are now recognized by the International Standards Organization (ISO) with six more currently in review.
• The DMTF published new versions of Common Information Model (CIM) Schema, Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) specification, and System Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) specification – examples of DMTF’s continued enhancements to its existing standards.
• The CDM Forum continues to create diagnostic instrumentation that enables integration of diagnostics into critical management functions. Through CDM Conformance Programs, the CDM Forum is providing solutions for interoperability validation to help drive adoption and implementation of system diagnostics. (It is not required that Forum participants be DMTF members.)
DMTF membership offers front-line access to DMTF standards and the opportunity to participate in the process of defining standards and programs. The work of the DMTF is funded through membership dues that are among the most cost effective in the industry. We continue to be ideal forum for industry leading companies to come together in a safe, non-competitive environment to collaborate on relevant interoperable management standards.
To learn more about the benefits of membership, view our BrightTALK session presented by DMTF President Jeff Hilland in the Learning Center. To join or renew, please visit the DMTF website www.dmtf.org/join. Have questions? Get answers by emailing admin@dmtf.org.
