Management Developers Conference

DECEMBER 3 - 6, 2007 SANTA CLARA MARRIOTT, SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA

Tracks

2007 Management Developers Conference
Conference Tracks
CDM
 Server Management
Virtualization
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. Until recently server management has been highly proprietery in nature.  This track will provide sessions on topics such as the SMASH initiative and DASH initiative from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
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.
Pre OS
CIM
Developer
Web Services

This track includes session on CIM Models and how they are being used in the industry.
 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.
WBEM Infrastructure


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This track includes sessions for WBEM Infrastructure, such as WBEM Servers,  Client and Provider adapters and other infrastructure items.