Management Developers Conference

DECEMBER 4 - 7, 2006 SANTA CLARA MARRIOTT, SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA

Tracks

2006 Management Developers Conference
Conference Tracks
CDM
Web Services
Server Management
Storage Management
Monitoring the health of hardware systems in multi-vendor environments is a difficult problem for IT. The Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) uses CIM to solve this problem. The CDM Forum is a group of industry champions whose charter is to foster the adoption of CDM. Presentations will discuss CDM and the CDM Forum. Additional presentations will provide information and guidance about developing CDM solutions. 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
Developer Tools
Grid & Networking
Service Availability
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.
 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 Grid & Networking 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.