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DMTF and SA Forum Announce Alliance Partnership; Collaboration to Extend DMTF's CIM and SA Forum's HPI, AIS APIs MUNICH, Germany --(Business Wire)-- May 12, 2004 -- Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF(R)), the organization leading the development and adoption of management standards for enterprise and Internet environments, and the Service Availability(TM) Forum (SA Forum), a consortium of industry-leading companies working together to develop and promote open specifications for high availability network infrastructure, today announced that they have entered into an alliance partnership. Under the agreement, the two organizations will work to link their existing standards, enabling new levels of interoperability between the technology management and communications segments.The work of the alliance partnership will first focus on mapping from SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) and Application Interface Specification (AIS) to the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM). CIM is the standard for the exchange of management information. The SA Forum specifications separate the hardware and the high availability applications from the middleware and make each independent of the other. This integration will allow SA Forum's high availability standard management functions to be used by the enterprise management clients that support DMTF's CIM, while further extending CIM in carrier-based high availability applications. "CIM provides a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications and services, and is ideally suited for the high availability arena," said Winston Bumpus, president, DMTF. "Using CIM to enable vendors to exchange semantically rich management information between systems throughout the network, SA Forum will extend its reach to network managers in the enterprise, and this partnership will allow DMTF to work in lock-step with SA Forum to meet the ongoing needs of the networking industry." "The transition to packet-based, converged, multi-service networks requires a carrier-grade infrastructure based on interoperable hardware and software building blocks, management middleware and applications, implemented with standard interfaces," said Manfred Reitenspiess, president, SA Forum. "DMTF's CIM will allow us to deliver this new level of interoperability in the high availability area. This partnership will also help increase the adoption rate of commercial off-the-shelf building blocks and strengthen the enterprise and telecommunications ecosystem." About the DMTF With more than 2,300 active members, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) -- developer of CIM and WBEM -- is the industry organization leading the development, adoption, and interoperability of management standards and initiatives for enterprise and Internet environments. CIM and WBEM are the standards for the exchange of management information in a platform-independent and technology-neutral way, providing a distributed, Internet-enabled interface for streamlining integration and reducing costs by enabling end-to-end multi-vendor interoperability in management systems. Key technology vendors and affiliated standards groups that implement CIM and WBEM provide a more integrated, cost-effective and proactive approach to management. Companies interested in joining the DMTF or obtaining more information about DMTF standards and the activities of the DMTF Working Committees should call 503-963-3505 or visit the DMTF Web site at www.dmtf.org. About the Service Availability(TM) Forum The Service Availability(TM) Forum is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to foster an ecosystem that enables the use of commercial off-the-shelf building blocks in the creation of high availability network infrastructure products, systems and services. To achieve this goal, the Service Availability Forum develops and publishes high availability and management software interface specifications while promoting and facilitating their adoption by industry. Service Availability Forum membership offers the opportunity to help frame and implement the Service Availability solution. For more information about the Service Availability Forum, visit www.saforum.org. |
