Managers Development Conference

December 5 - 8, 2005
Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, California

Tracks

2005 Management Developers Conference
10 Conference Tracks

Developer
Web Services

Server Management


Storage Management

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The Developer Track  focuses on the challenges facing a developer today in creating management client applications and  instrumentation. The sessions will include (Application Programming Interfaces) APIs, Tips and Tricks, Security, Events and much more. The sessions will include code examples and demonstrations.
 Web Services is poised to become the basis for many future management standards based protocols. This track will concentrate on two new efforts for standardizing web services for management: WSDM and WS-Management.
 Until recently server management has been highly proprietery in nature.  This track will provide sessions on topics such as the new SMASH initiative from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) as well as IPMI, virtualization and other server management related standards and specifications.
This track will concentrate on how to manage storage based on the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) from the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA).  Presentations will address the various areas of storage management, such as SAN, NAS, Array, Fibre, iSCSI as well as how to develop solutions based  on the specification.

Developer Tools
DMTF
Network/Telco

Service Availability

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As management standards continue to evolve and grow, the need for developer tools increase. This track will focus on various developer tools that will help to increase production and time to market.
 The DMTF track is targeted to developers/engineers that are new to CIM and WBEM technologies.   This track will provide a complete overview of the technologies as well as future directions. The Networking/Telco track will provide sessions that focus on using the Common Information Model (CIM) to model complex networking concepts as well as future networking management and how these relate to current industry networking and telecommunications standards.
 As availability requirements continue to increase, systems and services must become more reliable. The Service Availability Forum has developed a set of specifications and API's  that address this area. This track will describe the  specifications  and interfaces and  the need for them. 

Developers Lab




 
University Day
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The developers lab is a place for all attendees to go to get hands on experience with various implementations or to just kick back and relax while networking with other engineers.


The University Day is a one day event designed to get beginners  up to speed on the various technologies before the conference gets into full swing.  This one day event is a must for any newbie to CIM, WBEM, SMI or SMASH.