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ClMI Adopted by ISO and IEC

DMTF's Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) standard has been adopted and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as ISO/IEC 19831:2015. CIMI’s publication by ISO/IEC as an International standard for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management is expected to accelerate worldwide adoption and interoperability, and is the latest standard to achieve this designation.

The CIMI standard describes the model and protocol for management interactions between a cloud IaaS Provider and the Consumers of an IaaS service, helping facilitate portability between cloud implementations that support the standard.

To learn more click here. 

SPMF Releases Latest Work in Progress – Redfish Version 0.96

Having adopted the name Redfish for its new API standard, the DMTF’s Scalable Platforms Management Forum (SPMF) has recently released Version 0.96 as a Work in Progress. We invite comment on this newly released Redfish Specification, Schema, and Mockup, version 0.96 – which includes the full feature set that will be available in the 1.0 standard.

Designed to meet the expectations of end users for simple, modern and secure management of scalable platform hardware, Redfish 0.96 specifies a RESTful interface and utilizes JSON and OData to help customers integrate solutions within their existing tool chains. 

Download version 0.96 of the Redfish Specification, Schema and Mockup on the DMTF’s Works in Progress page: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wip.

China Chapter Announces Launch of Website and Translated Documents

Last week DMTF announced the launch of the China Chapter website. The site includes translated website content and specification documents available in Chinese for the first time in the organization’s 20-year history. Documents on the Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface are immediately available for download with plans to translate more content in the future.

Read the full announcement here.

Lenovo Joins Board of Directors

DMTF welcomes Lenovo to the Board of Directors. An active member for the past decade, the company joins 13 other technology companies from around the globe including: Broadcom Corporation; CA Technologies; Cisco; Dell; Emerson Network Power; Hitachi, Ltd.; HP; Intel Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NetApp; Software AG; Telecom Italia and VMware, Inc.
 

View the full announcement on our website.

CDM Forum White Paper Updated

The Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) Forum recently published the updated white paper, “Common Information Model (CIM) Diagnostic Model.” The paper describes the CDM schema as it appears in CIM 2.34 and in future development. It provides guidance, where appropriate, to client and provider implementers to reinforce the standardization goal.

Currently the CDM specification is widely used within the industry to evaluate the health of hardware systems in multi-vendor environments. The CDM Forum is dedicated to uniting the computer industry on a single interoperable interface to all system diagnostics. For additional information on the Forum please visit http://dmtf.org/join/cdm-forum.

To download the latest version of the white paper click here.