Server Management

News

2005/07/08 IBM aims to standardize virtualization management

2005/07/06 HP, IBM, CA lay out web services management roadmap

2005/06/29 Sun Buys SeeBeyond For $387M

2005/06/28 IBM redoubles SOA partner efforts (PartnerWorld Industry Networks)

2005/06/22 Cisco’s Application-Oriented Network initiative

2005/06/15 DCML: Doomed to obscurity?

2005/02/14 ABCs of Four New Web Services Standards (UDDI 3.0, XOP, MTOM, RRSHB)

2004-11-01 VERITAS joins SAF

Companies/Products

Intel

• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)

• Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)
• The future of BIOS
• Wired for Management (WfM) Baseline (see here and here and here)
• Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Boot Agent, PDK, and related resources (html spec)
• Boot Integrity Services (BIS)
• Active Management Technology (AMT)

Organizations/Standards

World Wide Web Consortium

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• XML Remote Procedure Call (XML-RPC)
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
• Microsoft SOAP resources (deprecated by .NET Framework)
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

• Web Services Infrastructure Standards, including WSDM (“Wisdom”)
• Data Center Markup Language (DCML)
• Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)
• Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
• Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) (XML representation of LDAP)
• Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)

Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)

• Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH)

• Common Information Model (CIM)
• Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
• Directory Enabled Network (DEN) Initiative
• Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Initiative
• Alert Standard Format (ASF)
• System Management BIOS (SMBIOS)
• Service Incident Exchange Standard (SIS) - integrated into CIM V2.5
• Solution Exchange Standard (SES) - integrated into CIM V2.5

Service Availability Forum (SAF)

· Systems Management Specification (SMS)

· Application Interface Specification (AIS)

· Hardware Platform Interface (HPI)

Eclipse Foundation

• Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project (authoring tools for WSDL, XML, and XML schema)

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)