Customer demand for open software is driving countless vendors, such as HP IBM and Microsoft, to work more closely with industry organizations to develop common protocols, languages and, industry standards for network and systems management. Management standards, such as the SNMP and Common Information Model (CIM)―now in Version 3 and 2.7, respectively―came into being years ago. Yet widespread excitement over standards work has remained lackluster―until recently In the past two years, the poor high-tech economy and demand for new Web-based technologies caused the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and its peer standards groups to stir the pot a bit and start working on multipurpose standards that could help network executives get control of today's distributed applications. Several industry organizations work with corporate end users as well as their member vendor companies and developers to create a means to an end―the end being open, interoperable and manageable information systems.
展开▼
