University Day - Introductory

Carl Chan, WSI

Introductory

Audience

The intended audience is anyone who desires to understand the basic concepts of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).

Synopsis

This session provides an introduction to the basic concepts of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technologies. Prior knowledge of CIM and WBEM is not required. Attendees will learn the significance of using an object-oriented data model to manage the enterprise. Attendees will also be exposed to other technologies and activities that complement the use of CIM and WBEM such as the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and System Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH).

Description

• Provide a brief overview of the DMTF technologies CIM and WBEM
• Explain the basic components of the DMTF CIM Specification v2.3
• Describe the CIM Schema v2.12 by providing a brief explanations of the Core and Common data models
• Describe the WBEM Operations as defined by the DMTF Specifiation for CIM Operations over HTTP v1.2
• Explain the discovery mechanism used to find WBEM services in a network as defined by DMTF WBEM Discovery Using the Service Location Protocol specification and WBEM SLP Template specification
• Explain the DMTF URI Mapping specification
• Provide a brief overview of the the SMI and SMASH Initiatives
• Explain the basic elements of the DMTF Server Management Command Line Protocol (CLP) specification
• Provide a brief overview of the SMI and SMASH Profiles
• Briefly summarize the Java programming interfaces as defined by JSR48
• Briefly summarize the C programming interfaces as defined by the Common Management Programming Interface (CMPI)

University Day - Advanced

Jim Davis, WSI

Advanced

Audience

The intended audience are Software Developers/Engineers who have a working knowledge of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).

Synopsis

This session teaches how to use CIM to solve management problems within an enterprise computing environment. To perform a specific management task, a set of CIM Classes and properties must be used. Such sets are known as Profiles. Using real world examples, this session will go through the process of defining Profiles for implementing interoperable CIM-based solutions.. Each example exercise will explore the steps of:

1. Problem and solution definition
2. Identification of the set of CIM classes and properties that will be used
3. Provider instrumentation development
4. Client management application development. Using real-time demonstrations and source code walk-through techniques, attendees will learn an approach for accomplishing each step.

Description

• This class will not discuss CIM and/or WBEM (Intro course will handle these topics)
• Management Profile Definition explained in detail
• Central vs Scoping class methodology (both Client and Implementation considerations)
• Profile walk through (attendees pick a few profiles to go through)
• Management Initiatives Defintion explained
• Management Initiatives overview
• SLP
• Indications
• Open

CDM Forum Update

Kevin Kuelbs, Hewlett Packard

Introductory

Chartered to unite industry diagnostics experts on a single, interoperable standard, the DMTF CDM forum has worked diligently to develop the Common Diagnostics Model.  Publishing the final 1.0 version of the specification last year allowed the Forum to focus on delivering its Conformance Certification Program to a successful launch in June of 2010.  Join us to learn about the Forum's history, hurdles we have overcome, exciting recent accomplishments, our plans for the future and how to be involved in them.

CDM Conformance Program

Ken Kotyuk , Hewlett Packard

Intermediate

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) CDM Forum launched in June 2010, the CDM Conformance Program and made available to the industry; the Conformance Test Suite (CTS) for testing to requirements of DSP1002 Test Profile ver. 1.0.   This session will focus on the Conformance Program, the Conformance Program Registry websites and the value add benefit for a company (applicant) to have their successful CDM module test results recognized by the DMTF .  Attendees will be provided with an in-sight to the future direction of the Conformance Program and scheduled enhancements to the Conformance Test Suite (CTS).

CDM Commodity Profiles Introduction

Rodney Brown, IBM

Introductory
The DMTF Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) profile specification (DSP1002 v2.0.0) provides a framework to perform diagnostic tests in an interoperable manner. Interoperability is achieved when hardware vendors provide CDM conformant implementations and ISVs create CDM conformant applications discovering, accessing and executing diagnostic tests. While CDM provides the general framework for interoperable diagnostic testing, in order to run diagnostics for a particular device (e.g. disk drive, CPU, etc), Commodity Diagnostic profile specifications are required. This presentation discusses the industry benefits of creating CDM compliant diagnostics for each commodity hardware component. This presentation also describes the process, roadmap and status of the Commodity Diagnostic profile specifications being worked on by the Diagnostic Special Interest Group (DIAG SIG) within the DMTF. The DMTF Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) profile specification (DSP1002 v2.0.0) provides a framework to perform diagnostic tests in an interoperable manner. This presentation explains how implementers should use the CIM classes defined by CDM 2.0.0 to create the infrastructure for running specific Commodity Diagnostic tests. This presentation then further describes how implementers should use the CIM classes defined by several Commodity Diagnostic profiles to create the specific Commodity Diagnostic tests.

CDM Commodity Profiles Advanced

Carl Chan, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Advanced

While CDM provides the general framework for interoperable diagnostic testing, in order to run diagnostics for a particular device (e.g. disk drive, CPU, etc), Commodity Diagnostic profile specifications are required. This presentation introduces the implementation of commodity CDM profiles for CPUs, disk drives, ethernet controllers and FibreChannel HBAs.  This session will explain the profile elements for each commodity profile in sufficient detail to allow vendors and ISVs to create conformant diagnostic tests.

CDM BOF

Kevin Kuelbs, Hewlett Packard

Introductory

The DMTF Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) profile specification (DSP1002 v2.0.0) provides a framework to perform diagnostic tests in an inter-operable manner. Interoperability is achieved when hardware vendors provide CDM conformant implementations and ISVs create CDM conformant applications discovering, accessing and executing diagnostic tests. This Birds of a Feather session is focused on the next generation CDM model with the goal of identifying and expounding upon future directions for the model. Topics up for discussion at this session include usage of the CIM_Error infrastructure in conjunction with CDM result reporting,  standard messages and CIM indications.   This base will also be used to introduce the concept of interactive tests and how to achieve an effective model of this behavior in CIM.

CDM Demo

Introductory

The CDM Forum will be providing a demonstration of CDM implementations.

VMAN Initiative Overview

Winston Bumpus, VMware

Introductory

This session will provide an overview of the DMTF Virtualization Initiative and schedule of events.  This presentation will include the high level architecture, implementation and protocol requirements.  This session will also list the profiles that will be part of the Virtualization initiative. 

SVP 2.0

Michael Johanssen, IBM

Intermediate

Introduction to machine readable profiles: general outline, PUG 1.1 conformance, editing approach, integration of the Virtual System profile, definition of indications, definition of metrics, definition of messages.

Lifecylce Operations using Ethernet Virtualization Profiles

Murali Rajagopal, QLogic and John Parchem, Microsoft

Advanced

This presentation will cover a set of use cases mapping the Ethernet virtualization profiles on SRIOV hardware and the associated life cycle operations to support the use cases. This is a logical follow to the earlier two presentations.

Management Standards for Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) and Port Profiles

Hemal V. Shah, Broadcom

Advanced

Widespread adoption of virtualization is bringing new challenges to network I/O virtualization. DMTF is working closely with IEEE to address different aspects of network I/O virtualization challenges. IEEE 802.1Qbg - Edge virtual bridging (EVB) standard enables coordinated configuration and management of bridge services for virtual stations. DMTF is working on defining XML schema for Port Profile as well as extending CIM classes to incorporate EVB and Port Profile related networking attributes into the Virtual Ethernet Switch and Ethernet Port Resource Virtualization management data models. This talk will provide an overview of the DMTF standards efforts for EVB and Port Profiles.

Ethernet Switch CIM Model

John Parchem, Microsoft

Intermediate

This is part of a three block presentation that describes enhancements to the virtualized CIM network model to support enhanced virtual switches including VEPA and VEB mode Edge Virtual Bridges (EVB) and a migratable network "Port Profile", enhancements to the virtualization profiles and CIM elements to support the new elements of the network model and a set of use cases mapping of the network virtualization profiles on SRIOV hardware and the associated life cycle operations to support the use cases.

Developing CIM Providers for VMware ESX

Anne Marie Merritt, VMware

Advanced

Develop CIM Providers on VMware – Provider Authoring with the VMware Workbench and VMware CIM Provider Development Kit (CIMPDK) – CIM VIB (VI Bundle) Provider Packaging – CIM handling of installed VIB contents – Troubleshooting and debugging on ESX.

DMTF Technical Overview

Jeff Hilland, Hewlett Packard

Introductory

This talk will provide an introduction to the technical work that is done within the DMTF.  It will cover the technical organization, how specifications are developed, and provide an overview of the DMTF specifications and activities underway within the technical working groups.  It is intended for developers who are new to the DMTF.

CIM Schema Overview

John Crandall, Brocade

Introductory/Intermediate

This presentation is designed as a starting point for beginners to get a basic understanding of the CIM Schema.  This presentation also is designed for developers that understand CIM but are unsure of the process/rules in creating schema for submission to the DMTF or creating vendor extensions. The presentation will include an introduction to the various DMTF models and the recent changes/additions made to the models.   The presentation will also include an overview of the considerations one needs to make when using existing schema and writing new schema for submission to the DMTF which will include a demonstration using the DMTF Change Request tool.

Profile Changes for 1.1

Michael Johanssen, IBM

Intermediate

Introduction to the central new concepts of the PUG: managed environment, adaptations, features, use of messages, indication definition, metric definition & implementation requirements.

Machine Readable Profiles

Andreas Maier, IBM

Intermediate

The DMTF work on machine readable profiles (MRP) has come to a point where the latest DMTF Work-in-Progress release (to happen just before the MDC conference) is functionally complete. This session provides an introduction to MRP, covering the motivation to introduce an XML based format for profiles, the MRP standards and their status, how to incrementally transition to using MRP profiles, how "paper profiles" can be produced from the MRP XML format, and information on how profile authors can get started with MRP. The session targets profile authors, profile implementers, and client application implementers.

Indications Profile

Michael Johanssen, IBM

Intermediate

Introduction to new concepts of the Indications profile: PUG 1.1 conformance, coverage, global indication filters, profile specific indication filters and base indication adaptations for referencing profiles.

CIM Version 3

George Ericson, EMC

Introductory

There are many new features proposed for CIM v3.  This talk will discuss the principles guiding development of CIM v3.  It will explore the new features in detail and will also discuss features that will not be carried forward from CIM v2.

CMDBf Standard Update

Ram Melkote, CA

Introductory/Intermediate

This session will provide an overview of work CA has done over the last year in facilitating industry adoption of the CMDBf standard. In particular, adoption, views and reactions to the standard both within CA and its customer base will be presented.

Embedded SMI-S Lessons Learned

Ma Yao, IBM

Intermediate/Advanced

Discussion of the challenges and design decisions involved in embedding SMI-S agents on the TS3500, SVC, DS8000 and XIV devices.

Implementing SMI-S

Steve Peters, PMC Sierra

Intermediate/Advanced

A complete implementation of a management agent may require profiles from the DMTF and SNIA organizations.  This presentation talks to some of the nuances of implementing a mixture of DMTF and SNIA profiles.  Examples will be used in the areas of the Base Server, Storage HBA, HHRC and Indications Profiles.

Automatic Generation of SMI Providers

David Dodgson, Unisys

Intermediate/Advanced

An SMI Provider must support the numerous classes defined as part of the storage profiles.  The Provider is usually in the form of a DLL attached to a CIM Object Manager.   It is used to make the instances of these classes available to the SMI clients to provide management of the storage device.  It is cumbersome to write the code to support all of these classes.  A method is described that will generate the provider code automatically based upon the descriptions in the MOF files.  This is done through additions to the Simple WBEM open source code to provide functions that implement the intrinsic interfaces to store, retrieve, modify, enumerate, and associate the instances through references.  A build procedure is defined that uses these functions to generate provider code for each class, and combine them into a single DLL.

SMI-S over WS-Management: Progress Report

Josh Cohen, Microsoft

Intermediate

"Web Services for Management" ('WS-Man') is the first specification in support of the DMTF initiative to expose CIM resources via a set of Web services protocols.  By identifying a core set of Web service  specifications and usage requirements to expose a common set of operations that are central to all systems management, WS-Management has the ability to:

• DISCOVER the presence of management resources and navigate between them
• GET, PUT, CREATE, and DELETE individual management resources, such as settings and dynamic values
• ENUMERATE the contents of containers and collections, such as large tables and logs
• SUBSCRIBE to events emitted by managed resources
• EXECUTE specific management methods with strongly typed input and output parameters

SMI-S has included the DMTF- standard WS-Man as an optional transport protocol (instead of CIM/XML) for several versions.  Now, SMI-S v1.6 is making that a reality.  How much change will this mean for SMI-S?  Who is doing the Standards work, and when will they be done?    Learn about WS-Man, and why it offers some advantages over CIM/XML.  More importantly, learn about what changes this could mean for your current and future implementations of SMI-S, in both providers and client applications.

SMI-S and the Role of SMI

Steve Peters, PMC Sierra

Intermediate

SMI-S is an extensible standard.  The actual content of the standard is marked for the level of 'maturity' of the material.  This presentation will identify what is involved in taking a vendor extension through the SMI maturity process from vendor extension through the various levels of maturity and the role that SMI programs play in that process."

SMI-S Agents for IBM Storage

Ma Yao, IBM

Intermediate

This presentation will introduce IBM's SMI-S agents for IBM storages (SVC,XIV,DS8K), including: SMI-S compliant profiles, advanced software functions (watchdog, failover), advanced storage function (smart hotspot tuning) and the relating new SMI-S profile 'Storage Relocation' IBM is proposing in 1.6 and easy test tool for SMI-S agents.

EMC Storage Management for System Center

Peter Lamann, EMC

Intermediate

This session will present how EMC is bringing storage management into Microsoft System Center. Learn how the SMI-S and WSMAN standards have been use to create a set of System Center Operations Manager management packs that form an extensible framework for monitoring a SAN Fabric.

DMTF Interoperable Cloud Standard

Billy Cox, Intel

Intermediate

Cloud management interfaces continue to emerge from various sources. The DMTF Open Cloud Incubator has recently released a series of documents on the cloud management interface. These documents represent a significant advance in the understanding of the cloud management interface, the architecture, the use cases, and the data artifacts. This session will provide a review of the work from the Open Cloud Incubator.

Writing WBEM Clients & Providers using Java (JSR48)

Jim Davis, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Intermediate/Advanced

The JSR48 API is the standard Java API for developing CIM and WBEM Clients and Providers. The API includes support for the following:

• CIM - A mapping of the Common Information Model (CIM) Meta Schema to Java.
• WBEM Client - A protocol-neutral mapping of WBEM operations to Java.
• Listeners - A set of classes to listen for Indications.
• Providers - A set of interfaces for developing providers.

This session will describe the architecure and design of the API, describe each of the Interface areas, provide running code examples for clients, listeners, providers and CIM Mappings. The examples will use both CIM-XML and WS-Management.

Best Practices to Improve CIM Performance

Jun Feng Liu, IBM

Introductory

The presentation will introduce couple ways to optimize CIM performance. It is easy to hear the performance complain during CIM implementation. But actually, CIM performance could be improved from several levels - Protocol level optimization: One of the reason effects CIM performances is the CIM objects could be pretty big and increase network transportation load. - CIM operation optimization level: not just reduce the requests number, but also gain better performance and save network bandwidths. For example, when applications do enumerateInstances with qualifier, the "CIM Operation Optimize" tier "break down" the CIM requests into multiple steps to get class and instances without qualifier will reduce the repeats qualifier, which is the static information from repository in most cases. - Based on profile implementation level: With profile evolution, some advance feature can save the performance greatly. For example, view classes concept originally from Storage Domain, which can give the storage topology in single request/response, greatly reduced the network overhead. - CQL query: Implements CQL will increase the difficulty for provider design but give a more flexible way.

WBEM Agent Validation Environment (WAVE)

Carl Chan, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Intermediate

The WBEM Solutions WBEM Agent Validation Environment is a data driven test infrastructure designed specifically to validate WBEM-Based implementations against protocols, profiles and initiatives. The product supports both the CIM-XML and WS-Management protocols.  The product allows end users to extend the test suite by add tests, and custom profiles.

Heterogeneous CIMOM Support

Nilesh Narayan Phadni, Patni Computer System Ltd.

Intermediate

DMTF developed WBEM standard to support interoperability and unify the management of distributed computing environment. One of the core components of this standard is CIMOM. Multiple implementation of CIMOM is available and promoted by various OEMs/vendors/developers. Thus it is obvious that storage server managing multiple entities would have multiple CIMOMs running simultaneously. This presentation will discuss the inherent issues/challenges comes into arena with multiple CIMOMs. Configuration suggested for CIMOM and provider. In scenario of multiple CIMOMs, understanding of provider discovery mechanism.

Attendees will learn the following:

• What all multiple CIMOM requirement scenarios?
• What are interoperability challenges?
• Configuration sentinel of CIMOM and SMI-S provider
• Provider discovery mechanism understanding in case of multiple CIMOMs
• Implementation guidelines for SMI-S provider
• Recommendations for heterogeneous CIMOM interoperability

WBEM Solutions SDK Pro

Jim Marshall, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Intermediate

WBEM Solutions offers a variety of products and services to aid companies in providing enterprise ready WBEM-Based implementations. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of the following products. The WBEM Solutions SDK Pro is a set of utilities and libraries to aid the developer in the creation of Clients, Providers, tools and Infrastructure. The tools include a code generation utilities, MOF compiler, MOF formatter, conversion utilities (MOF->XSD, MOF->XML, MOF->HTML, ...), Java client API, etc.

Platform Management Components Intercommunications: A Technical Overview

Hemal V. Shah, Broadcom Corporation & Tom Slaight, Intel

Advanced

Platform Management Components Intercommunications (PMCI) is a Working Group (WG) within DMTF. PMCI defines the standards to address "inside the box" communication and functional interfaces between the components of the platform management subsystem such as management controllers, BIOS, and intelligent management devices. This talk provides an overview of the PMCI scope, work areas, and specifications. This talk focuses on two important PMCI WG technologies: Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) and Platform Level Data Model (PLDM). MCTP is a physical medium independent transport protocol designed to support communications between different platform management subsystem components. The talk will provide an overview of the MCTP communication model including a message format, transport description, transport bindings, and operational endpoint characteristics. PLDM is a data model targeted for efficient communications among platform management subsystem components for accessing low-level platform inventory, monitoring, control, event generation and logging, and data/parameters transfer functions including SMBIOS data transfer and BIOS control/configuration. The Platform Level Data Model (PLDM) is designed to be an effective data and control source for mapping under CIM.

DASH & SMASH Overview (Platform Profiles)

Jeff Hilland, Hewlett Packard & Joe Kozlowski, AMD

This session will provide an overview of SMASH & DASH, including their differences and their similarities. The presentation will include architectural models and implementation requirements, including the protocol requirements for the SM CLP and WS-Management and a brief discussion of the profiles. It will include preliminary information on any expected additions to the specifications as well.

New DASH & SMASH Profiles

Jeff Hilland, Hewlett Packard & Joe Kozlowski, AMD

System Management Forum

Perry Vincent, Intel and Akash Malhotra, AMD

Introductory

The System Management Forum develops and operates conformance programs for the DASH and SMASH initiatives of the DMTF. The primary objective of the Forum is to foster interoperability between management applications and desktop, mobile, and server systems that implement the DMTF standards that comprise the DASH and SMASH implementation specifications. Come learn more about the Forum and its member benefits, conformance test suites, conformance programs, future plans, and other interoperability activities.

DASH 1.0 Conformance Program

Perry Vincent, Intel

Intermediate

In March of this year, the System Management Forum opened its DASH 1.0 Conformance Program and is now certifying and publishing product conformance test results on the DMTF public web site.   Come to this session to learn everything there is to know about the Conformance Program, the DASH 1.0 Conformance Test Suite, and how your company can participate.

Standardization and Open Source Implementation of Integrated Access Control Policy Management

Ryuichi Ogawa and Masayuki Nakae, NEC Corporation

Intermediate

We show standardization work of integrated access policy control manager and open source implementation of the profile. Also its application to cloud services will be addressed. Demonstration is planned.

Security Working Group DMTF Profile Update

Khachatur Papanyan, Dell & Hemal V. Shah, Broadcom Corporation

This presentation will cover the work register of Security WG and the variety of security areas that the WG develops profiles around. The presentation will describe why and when security profiles are useful, and perhaps as importantly what they do and do not cover. The session most importantly will also cover the recent updates to the models and profiles developed in the Security WG

CIM-RS

Andreas Maier, IBM

CIM-RS stands for "CIM over RESTful services" and is a DMTF Incubator that is chartered to define how RESTful services can best be used with CIM and WBEM. The incubator has produced two informational specifications that define in detail how RESTful services could be used with CIM. This session gives an overview on the work of the DMTF CIM-RS Incubator, and of the content of these informational specifications.

CIM Adoption on IBM Power Platform

Jun Feng Liu, IBM

Introductory

The presentation will provide an overview of the CIM implementation on Power system. IBM Power system (AIX and i OS) take utilizes the CIM technology to build system management infrastructure, which touched all perspectives of system management topics like system inventory management, performance, storage management, even virtualization support. Power platform provides common implementations for DMTF metrics, os base, SMI-S HHR/HBA profile as standard based interface for CIM based management application. User need take care of the slight different among those implementations since when Power platform adopts the profile; the model need fit specific OS concepts. The presentation will talk the CIM model offering on each Power brand OSes.

CIMPLE and KonkretCMPI

Karl Schopmeyer, Inova

Writing WBEM Providers in C using CMPI

Karl Schopmeyer, Inova

CMPI (Common Manageability Programming Interface) is a standard from The Open Group. This session will describe how to write providers in C to the CMPI standard so that the providers can be portable across multiple WBEM Servers. This session will be showing source code examples and if time permits running examples.

Talking WS-Man and CIM/XML in Your Favorite Programming Language

Klaus Kaempf, SUSE Linux Products GmbH

Intermediate

This talk gives an overview over client bindings available for WS-Management and CIM/XML in various programming languages like Perl, Python, Ruby or Java. Special focus on scripting languages and achievable code reductions compared to C or C++.

Coding Providers in Your Favorite Programming Language

Klaus Kaempf, SUSE Linux Products GmbH

Intermediate

Coding CMPI providers in popular scripting languages like Perl, Python or Ruby give a huge boost in productivity. This talk shows available tools, code generators and best practices in scripting CIM providers.

OpenPegasus - Overview and Status

Karl Schopmeyer, Inova

Introductory

This presentation will present an overview of the OpenPegasus CIM Server and environment including the current status of the project and expected new functionality in the next generation.  It will also provide information on the use of Pegasus in embedded systems.

OpenPegasus - Advanced Topics

Karl Schopmeyer, Inova

Advanced

This presentation will present an overview of the OpenPegasus CIM Server and environment including the current status of the project and expected new functionality in the next generation.  It will also provide information on the use of Pegasus in embedded systems.

OVF (Open Virtualization Format)

Winston Bumpus, VMware

The rapid adoption of virtual infrastructure has highlighted the need for a standard, portable model for the distribution of virtual machines between virtualization platforms. Packaging an application together with the operating system on which it is certified, into a virtual machine that can be easily transferred through test and development and into production as a pre-configured, pre-packaged unit with no external dependencies, is extremely attractive. Such pre-deployed, ready-to-run applications packaged as virtual machines (VMs) are called virtual appliances. In order to make this concept practical on a large scale, it is important that the industry adopts a vendor-neutral standard.

This session will deal with the challenges of a portable format, identify key industry initiatives towards this goal, and discuss the relevance of the portable format for an enterprise.

DMTF Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure

Billy Cox, Intel

DMTF Cloud Use Cases and Data Artifacts

TBD

CDMI Specification for Developers

Mark Carlson, Oracle

Intermediate

The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an industry standard on it's way to ANSI and ISO ratification. Storage vendors and Cloud providers have started their implementations of the CDMI standard, demonstrating the reality of interoperable cloud storage. This talk will drill down into the developer details of interoperable cloud storage, demonstrating CDMI with examples of the actual messages and message bodies for each of the resources. Familiarity with RESTful web protocols is recommended.

Accelerating the transformation to cloud

Rekha Raghu, Intel and Hemma Prafullchandra, HyTrust

The buzz around cloud computing is reaching new heights, but the discussion rarely covers the practical elements of the challenges and techniques to build a cloud infrastructure.  Building a cloud can be a daunting process - from designing a hardware infrastructure that will meet the customer demands, moving applications to the cloud to identifying, as well as configuring the cloud management software to run the infrastructure. In this session, you will hear how to accelerate your transformation to the cloud with the help of Intel(R) Cloud Builder program.

You will also see demonstrations of security policy management across the private and hybrid clouds and security policies anchored in hardware root of trust.

Topics include:

• Overview of cloud
• Cloud Usage Models
• Overview of Intel Cloud Builder Program
• Demonstrations of cloud transparency, visibility and controls grounded in hardware root of trust.

Using SMI-S with the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)

Scott Baker, Consultant

Intermediate

The Cloud Data Management Interface(CDMI) SNIA Architecture provides an interoperable and vendor-neutral control and data path management interface for both public and private clouds. The Storage Management Initiative Specification(SMI-S) provides an interoperable and vendor-neutral interface for management of SAN systems. SMI-S is the ideal solution to provide the control path implementation for CDMI implementations that are being used to export legacy protocols such as iSCSI and CIFS. This session will provide an overview of such a solution including standard to standard object mapping, code examples, and demonstration.

Building a secure and power efficient cloud

Billy Cox, Intel

Once you build a cloud, you quickly discover that you need pools of trusted compute and storage. You also find that power policies can really make a difference. But how do move from need to reality? This session will review work in the Cloud Builder program where we actually setup and tested clouds with trusted pools and power management.

Managing Secure Access to the Cloud

Blake Dournaee - Intel SOA Products Group, Intel

The IT industry is enabling a shift away from purchased hardware and software to a leasing model via Cloud computing and SaaS products. This shift creates some well-known security and manageability challenges in integrating those external services with internally hosted applications. Typical issues include multiple isolated identity systems integration, entitlements policy enforcement across on-premise and external Cloud services, distributed security auditing policy enforcement and compliance concerns.

Split Point is a Cloud security management product from Intel, it aims to address such problems to remove security and manageability hurdles for enterprises during migration to Cloud services.

This demo will cover typical security and manageability challenges with Enterprise and Cloud integration, and introduce Split Point’s novel solutions to address those challenges. The following issues will be covered in depth.

Internet Single Sign-On(SSO) and Single Logout(SLO). Description of the characteristics and implementation of commonly-used identity federation protocols, such as the SAML browser SSO profile and widely used Identity Managers such as Windows Active Directory. The presentation will also cover two-factor authentication models using TPM chips to tie authentication actions to individual trusted clients.

Fine-grained access control to Cloud services. The use of pre-defined XACML policy models to enforce fine grained access control to the entire SaaS service request interaction.

Automatic user account provisioning. The mechanisms used to automatically provision user accounts in external services via tight synchronization with enterprise identity systems.

Auditing & Compliance Mechanisms. The auditing of security events and other actions to fulfill enterprise security and compliance policy requirements.

Cloud Management Standards

Steve Carter, Novell & Winston Bumpus, VMware

The DMTF has been exploring cloud management standards since April 2009, first in an incubator project, and now in a working group. Over twenty five member companies have participated, and several have made technology submissions. The incubator published a white paper describing a vision for cloud management standards and two informational specifications that further developed the vision. The working group is developing proposals for DMTF standards, taking into consideration the technology submissions and informational specifications. This presentation describes these activities, with particular emphasis on the content of the informational specifications.

Error Handling  for Client and Provider Developers

Jim Davis, WSI

The DMTF has introduced a new class called CIM_Error. This class contains detailed information on the error that occurred as well as allowing for standard messages and information for corrective behavior. This session will provide source code and running examples that describe how the infrastructure, providers and clients product and handle instances of CIM_Error.

CDMI Clients

Rich Ramos, Chief Technologist, Consultant

This session will cover general aspects of cloud clients as well as specific aspects of developing CDMI clients. the session is intended as a general overview since there are a wide range of clients. Intended audience should be any interested in development or technical details on CDMI clients.

Learning Objectives

• CDMI client basics
• Developing CDMI clients
• Example client demo: iPhone/iPad

CDM v2.0 Profile Advanced

Carl Chan, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Advanced

The DMTF Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) profile specification (DSP1002 v2.0.0) provides a framework to perform diagnostic tests in an interoperable manner. Interoperability is achieved when hardware vendors provide CDM conformant implementations and ISVs create CDM conformant applications discovering, accessing and executing diagnostic tests. The session will explain CDM 2.0 profile elements are to be used in sufficient detail to allow vendors and ISVs to create this conformant application framework.

Requirements specific to each commodity.

Managing Trust and Security in the Cloud with Trusted Execution, Secure Management and Dynamic Policy Enforcement

Charlton Barreto, Intel

Enterprise organizations are looking to Virtualization and the Cloud as a way to improve operational efficiency, become more agile, and reduce their fixed infrastructure costs. However, most enterprises are reluctant to leverage these infrastructures in any meaningful way due to the inherent security, trust and privacy risks. This session will take a detailed look at how organizations can leverage platform hardware and virtualization management technologies to seamlessly and securely move VMs that run business-critical applications and their operational policies across trusted environments, providing a secure method to burst these applications from the Private to the Public Cloud. Together, platform hardware and virtualization management technologies provide hardened security and trust for both physical and virtualized resources.

Following the session, attendees will understand how to:

1. Define "pools" of nodes/devices in which virtualized resources and assets can be securely migrated between private and public cloud computing environments, through trust and security solutions for physical and virtualized resources;
2. Leverage prevailing technologies to provide dynamic infrastructure policy enforcement across the entire virtual enterprise;
3. Configure trusted pools and attach policies to these using standards-based, state of the art policy definitions, as well as enable the tracking of virtual resources for policy application and enforcement;
4. Enable cloud providers through industry standard interfaces to provide security, compliance and auditing solutions for the Cloud.
   

CIM V3 BOF

Moderator: George Ericson, EMC Corporation

CIM Version 3 Birds of a Feather session is an open discussion of what CIM Future versions should look like. Be prepared to bring a list of features/changes you would like to see in the next major version of the Common Information Model.

Platform Alert Messages: A Technical Overview

Hemal V. Shah, Broadcom

Rodney Brown, IBM

Speaker bio

Rodney Brown is a technical lead for the System Health and Problem Determination team within IBM System x. The team works closely with the global IBM service community to define and implement a problem determination strategy based on industry standards such as the Common Information Model and more specifically the Common Diagnostic Model.  Rodney is also an active participant in the DMTF as chair of the Diagnostic Special Interest Group and member of the CDM Forum to further develop and promote use of the diagnostic standard throughout the industry.

Winston Bumpus, VMware

Speaker bio

Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMware, has had over 30 years of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the President of the DMTF. He has chaired activities in other standards organizations including, OASIS, and The Open Group. Prior to VMware he was Director of Systems Management Architecture at Dell and he was also Director of Open Technologies at Novell, Inc. He is co-author of the books "Common Information Model" and "The Foundations of Application Management." He has participated in the DMTF for over 14 years and worked on its early development of the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards and founded and chaired its Application Management Working Group.

Carl Chan, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Speaker bio

Carl Chan is currently the VP of Production Engineering and Support for WBEM Solutions, Inc. He has over 30 years of software development experience working for major computer companies such as Data General, Prime Computer and Sun Microsystems. During that time, Carl has gained extensive knowledge in operating systems, local area networks, system management and storage technologies.

Josh Cohen, Microsoft

Speaker bio

Josh Cohen is a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft's Windows Enterprise Management Division Strategic Alliance Team. He leads the standards engagements for the division such as WS-Management and was also a co-author of the WS-Management specification. Since 1993, he has worked on various Internet Standards such as HTTP and participated in the IETF as well as OMA. In addition to this role, he has experience as a Program Manager, Developer and Administrator working on various Web infrastructure products and systems. Prior to working at Microsoft, he has experience working at small software companies as well as Netscape Communications and United Parcel Service. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.

Billy Cox, Intel

Speaker bio

Since joining Intel in 2007, Billy Cox has been leading the Cloud strategy efforts for the Intel Software and Services Group. Billy is also currently co-chair of the DMTF Open Cloud Incubator. Prior to joining Intel, Billy was Director of Systems Engineering at HP. During his 14 years at HP, he was responsible for the development of all infrastructure management tools used to manage the various server and storage platforms. In his 30+ years of industry experience, Billy has led the design of compute, network, and storage solutions and actively participated in multiple standards efforts.

John C. Crandall, Brocade

Speaker bio

John Crandall is an architect for Brocade's Technology Group, responsible for ensuring management standards integration into the Brocade architecture. Crandall works closely with standards organizations such as SNIA, DMTF, and T11 to develop, drive, and promote standards to simplify management of heterogeneous Storage Area Networks.

While at Brocade, Crandall was one of the original architects of the Bluefin Specification and is a Principal Author of the SNIA's Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and core team member of it's steering group.  Crandall has been an active member of the SNIA and DMTF for over ten years.  Crandall chairs the SNIA's Fibre Channel Technical Work Group, is the vice-chair of the DMTF Technical Council, is the SNIA's liaison to the DMTF, is the chair of the DMTF Core Schema Work Group, and is the DMTF representative to the INCITs Executive Board.  Also Crandall has been recognized by the SNIA as a SMI Distinguished Engineer and by the DMTF with several Star Awards.

Crandall has been with Brocade for over nine years, and has worked almost two decades exclusively in enterprise system management, and almost 30 years as a high technology engineer.  Prior to Brocade, Crandall was a Project Lead at Intel's Fabric Components Division, responsible for defining requirements for Intel's InfiniBand management products.  While at Intel, Crandall developed the first CIM provider for fabrics using the first InfiniBand hardware.

Prior to Intel, he held multiple project leadership positions at Siemens/Pyramid, where he worked on enterprise system management and network management for Clustered SMP Systems and MPP Systems.   Prior to that, he spent a decade at GE developing flight control systems, advanced radar systems, FAA voice switching control systems, and nuclear reactor information systems .

Crandall holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State University.

Jim Davis, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Speaker bio

Jim Davis is the CTO for WBEM Solutions, Inc.  Jim has over 20 years experience in systems and network management. Jim currently chairs the DMTF CIM-XML Working Group. Previously Jim has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a member of the DMTF Technical Committee, chair of the DMTF Interop Working Group, chair of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) Management Protocol Technical Working Group. Jim also acts as the Specification lead for the Java Specification Request (JSR) 48, the WBEM Services Specification, and is involved in many other management standards and open source initiatives.

Jim Davis has been one of the key architects of CIM and WBEM. Jim also has been an expert speaker of numerous CIM and WBEM conferences, including the DMTF Developers Conference, JavaOne, The Open Group, CA World, Solaris Developers Conference and Storage Developers Conference to name a few.

Prior to co-founding WBEM Solutions, Jim spent nine years with Sun Microsystems, Inc. as a Senior Architect responsible for various system and network management technologies and products, including Java WBEM Services and Solaris WBEM Services. Prior to joining Sun in 1993, Jim worked in the Research & Development group at The Damirus Corporation developing solutions for remote provisioning and other utilities.

David Dodgson, Unisys

Speaker bio

David Dodgson has been a software engineer with Unisys Corp. for over thirty years. He has worked on programming languages such as COBOL and C++, operating systems, and storage solutions. David is currently on the architecture team for the Unisys Stealth Security project.

George Ericson, EMC Corporation

Speaker bio

Mr. George Ericson is a Distinguished Engineer for the Advanced Technology Group of EMC Corporation's Storage Platforms Operations. Mr. Ericson has worked in an architect role for storage and operating systems throughout most of his 30+ years in the industry. He is active within DMTF, representing EMC within the Technical Council, and actively participating in the Architecture, Core, and WBEM Infrastructure and Protocols Working Groups. Mr. Ericson is also active within the Storage Networking Industry Assocation, has contributed significantly to the SMI-S specification, and is a strong advocate for the use of the Common Information Model.

Jeff Hilland, Hewlett Packard

Speaker bio

Jeff Hilland is a Senior Systems Architect in the Enterprise Storage & Servers Business Unit of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Jeff is currently the chair of the DMTF Technical Committee and also serves as co-chair of both the Server Management Work Group and the Desktop & Mobile Work Group. Jeff has spent the last 10 years driving industry standards and has served in chairing roles in both the RDMA Consortium and the InfiniBand Trade Association. Jeff's 25-plus year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, device driver and services architecture & development and performance analysis. It has also included significant contributions to high speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization including RDMA, InfiniBand and the Virtual Interface Architecture.

Michael Johanssen, IBM

Speaker bio

Michael Johanssen is a Software Architect at IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH. He also is the Vice-chair of the DMTF SVPC working group and Editor PUG 1.1.

Klaus Kämpf, SUSE Linux Products GmbH

Speaker bio

Klaus Kämpf is Project Manager and Architect for Systems Management at SUSE Linux Products GmbH, a Novell business. With more than 20 years of experience and a strong open source background, he is mostly focusing on exploring and integrating technologies and standards for systems management into the SUSE Linux family of products offered by Novell.

Ken Kotyuk, Hewlett Packard

Speaker bio

Ken Kotyuk is a Program Manager within HP (GES) group helping managing the Common Diagnostic Model (CDM). Ken has over 25 years product development experience and holds 13 U.S. patents before transferring to GES. As a participant within the DMTF CDM Leadership Forum, CDM Diagnostic SIG and DMTF Conformance Committee has provided a knowledge base and appreciation on the importance for industry diagnostics adoption. He will be presenting the CDM Conformance Program at MDC 2010.

Kevin Kuelbs, Hewlett Packard

Speaker bio

Kevin Kuelbs, a recent graduate from Rice University with a BS in Electrical Engineering, is Hewlett Packard's newest addition to their CDM team.  Working as a software/systems engineer with the CIM and CDM standards, Kevin has become an active participant in the DMTF CDM Forum and serves as HP's Houston liaison to further usage of CDM within the various HP Global Business Units.

Peter Lamanna, EMC

Speaker bio

Mr. Peter Lamanna is a Software Engineer on EMC's Hyper-V team within the Enterprise Storage Division Server Virtualization Group. He has worked in IT Management and operating systems for 20 years developing products for Configuration and Operations Management. He has written management packs for Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 SP1, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and System Center Operations Manager 2007

Liu Jun Feng, IBM

Speaker bio

Liu Jun Feng is advisory software engineer in IBM China STG Lab. Focus on IBM i Systems Director development.

Andreas Maier, IBM

Speaker bio

Andreas Maier is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's development lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He is responsible for strategy and architecture of systems management on Linux for System z and z/VM, and has a leading role in the area of the CIM and SMI-S standards across IBM's Systems & Technology Group. As a part of that, he is contributing to systems management standards at DMTF. Andreas started working for IBM in 1987, after finishing a masters degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Jim Marshall, WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Speaker bio

Jim is currently a Sr. Software Engineer at WBEM Solutions. He has over 20 years of software development experience working for companies such as Microsoft, IBM (Lotus), Sun Microsystems, BMC Software and WBEM Solutions. Jim was part of the OpenGroups CMPI working group and eventually lead the group through the successful completion of the 2.0 specification. Jim has extensive experience with operating systems, system management and storage technologies.

Ram Melkote, CA

Speaker bio

Ram Melkote is the Product Manager for CA CMDB. He manages the product strategy for CA CMDB along with the product federations that underly the Unified Service Model (USM). Ram has over 20 years of cross functional experience in the IT industry across service management.

IT applications, SOA , Middleware, Databases, and Systems Management. His experience has spanned Product Management, Product Development, Architecture, and Consulting. Prior to CA he has worked for IBM, Bell, and Oracle, and has founded a start-up. He has a Masters in Engineering from Cornell, a Master in Computer Science from Columbia, and an MBA from University of Chicago.

Anne Marie Merritt, VMware

Speaker bio

Anne Marie Merritt is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware involved in Software Development & Partner Development Support in Ecosystems Engineering.

Ryuichi Ogawa, NEC Corporation

Speaker bio

Ryuichi Ogawa is a senior principal researcher of Service Platform Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation. He has been directing and managing system security research projects since 2004. His current interest includes policy-based security management, information leakage protection, secure virtual server consolidation and privacy protection. In DMTF Ryuichi has been working for the standardization of integrated access control profile in Policy WG since 2008. He is also a member of Security WG, Cloud Incubator and Cloud Management WG, and is contributing to specify cloud security management use cases and related interfaces.

Khachatur Papanyan, Dell

Speaker bio

Khachatur Papanyan is a member of Advanced Engineering and Standard Instrumentation Development Teams at Dell. For the last couple of years, Khachatur has been concentrating on developing CIM based management industry standards. He currently chairs the Security working group at DMTF. Khachatur is also the editor of many of CIM profiles. He has received B.S in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Circuit Design from the University of Texas at Austin. Khachatur is also currently studying for J.D. from University of Houston Law Center.

John Parchem, Microsoft

Speaker bio

John is a Software Architect at Microsoft in the Windows Server organization. While he has many years as a Software Architect in both the Windows Server and the core OS group, he started Microsoft 22 years ago as a principal hardware engineer as the lead system and ASIC designer of the MIPs based workstations used in the development of Windows NT. John is an original and contributing member to the DMTF SVPC work group and its virtualization model. Prior to Microsoft John worked at the Digital Equipment Corporation as a processor and system design engineer.

Steve Peters, PMC Sierra

Speaker bio

Biography not provided

Nilesh Narayan Phadnis, Patni Computer System Ltd

Speaker bio

Nilesh Narayan Phadnis is a Technical Architect for Patni Computer System Ltd. He has been working in SMI-S Provider domain from last 3.5 years, with total experience of 12 years. He has a B.E. in Electronics and M.S. in Software Engineering.

Murali Rajagopal, QLogic Corporation

Speaker bio

Murali Rajagopal is a Technology Strategist at QLogic Corporation in the Host Solutions Group business unit. Murali works in the advanced technology product group for Gigabit Ethernet Controllers, Converged Network Adapters and Fibre Channel Adapters. Murali is a co-editor of the SVPC Virtual Networking WP in SVPC Virtual Networking WG. He has authored the DMTF Simple Identity Management Profile in the past. He has co-authored 3 IETF RFCs including RFC 2625 which is a management standard for Fibre Channel SANs and FCIP which is transport for Fibre Channel over IP networks. He was editor of T11.3's FC-BB WG standards from Years 1998 to 2004. He has worked in the past for both platform and silicon companies. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Karl Schopmeyer, Inova Development Inc.

Speaker bio

Mr. Karl Schopmeyer is the President of Inova Development, a company dedicated to CIM products, and one of the original authors of OpenPegasus. He is also the chair of two workgroups in the DMTF (Applications and State/Behavior) and the Management forum in The Open Group.

Hemal Shah, Broadcom Corporation

Speaker bio

Hemal Shah is an Associate Technical Director at Broadcom Corporation in the Network Infrastructure Group. Over the past 5 years, Hemal had a lead system architect role in the development of key Gigabit Ethernet controller products and technologies. Hemal is the lead architect behind Broadcom's TruManage technology and client/server manageability features. He spearheads advanced research and product concepts based on manageability, security, networking protocols, and virtualization technologies. Prior to joining Broadcom Corporation in 2005, Hemal worked at Intel Corporation in several positions including senior staff architect, researcher, and software engineer. During his 8 plus years at Intel Corporation, Hemal led the development of system/silicon/software architecture for several products including 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers and communication processors. Hemal has expertise in networking protocols, system management, security, virtualization, web services, high-speed networking, cluster/distributed computing, protocol offloading, storage networking, and system software.

In DMTF, Hemal chairs Platform Management Sub-committee and co-chairs Physical Platform Profiles (PPP), Platform Management Components Intercommunications (PMCI), and security working groups. In the last 5 years, Hemal was instrumental in the development of DASH, PMCI, CIM profiles, and WS-Management standards. Hemal has led several standardization efforts in DMTF, IETF, and RDMA Consortium. As a lead author, editor, and/or major technical contributor, Hemal has co-authored more than 25 DMTF specifications, three IETF RFCs, and three RDMA consortium specifications. Hemal is the lead technical representative/contributor from Broadcom Corporation in several DMTF working groups including PPP, SVPC, SDMWG, PMCI, Security, and WS-Management. Hemal holds 11 patents and has co-authored more than 10 technical conference/journal papers. Hemal holds a Ph. D. (computer engineering) and M.S. (computer sciences) from Purdue University, an M.S.E.E. (electrical and computer engineering) from University of Arizona, and a B.S. (electronics and communication engineering) from India.

Tom Slaight, Intel

Speaker bio

Tom is a principal server management architect in the Intel Digital Enterprise Group Architecture and Planning organization. He has developed server management architecture at Intel for the past 12 years, with over 20 years of experience in product architecture and as a lead electronic design engineer in the industry. He has participated in numerous system management initiatives, including the DMTF Devices, DMWG, and Pre-OS Working Groups, DMTF Alerting Standard Forum, Server System Infrastructure (SSI), and Wired-for-Management, and is presently co-chair of the DMTF PMCI workgroup and contributor to the NC-SI workgroup and specifications. Tom is an originator of the Intelligent Platform Management architecture and lead author and technical contributor to the IPMI specifications. Tom was also a reviewer and technical contributor to the original DMTF Systems Standards MIF, Server Hardware Design Guides, SMBus 2.0 specifications, and a co-author of the SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures (SAF-TE) specification, the Hardware Management chapter of the InfiniBand™ specifications, and the management chapter PCI Express™ ExpressModule™ Electromechanical specification.

Perry Vincent, Intel

Speaker bio

Perry G. Vincent is a Software and Systems Architect at Intel Corporation. Perry's area of focus is system management architecture for embedded implementations. His career covers many computing disciplines, including communication protocol software, system software integration, multi-processor and distributed systems architecture, object-oriented design, data modeling, telecom server management, and customer relationship management.

As a contributing member of the DMTF Server Management Working Group, Perry was the initial editor of the SM-CLP Specification, the SM-CLP-to-CIM Common Mapping Specification, and several CIM profile specifications. He is currently co-chair of the System Management Forum (SMF), which sponsors the DASH and SMASH Conformance Programs.

Mike Walker

Speaker bio

Mike Walker is currently retired from IBM Corporation.  He currently lists himself as a Distinguished Farmer at Anchor Farms in Illinois.

Mr. Walker is an SMI Distinguished Engineer and an SMI Distinguished Leader and actively participates in the SMI Technical Steering Group, the SMI Governing Board and the Conformance Committee.

Mr. Walker’s career at IBM spanned over 38 years.  Previous assignments in IBM have included assignments in corporate headquarters, relational database development, VM operating system development and Storage Software Architecture and Standards.

Mr. Walker holds a BS and MS degrees in Mathematics from the University of Illinois.

Zhang Jun Wei, IBM

Speaker bio

Biography not provided

Ma Yao, IBM

Speaker bio

I am Maya from CSTL Shanghai Lab. I joined IBM 4 years ago as a test engineer. Now I'm working for Host Software Group as the FVT lead. I have been focusing on FVT for CIM ( Common Interface Model ) on a series of IBM storages, including DS, SVC and XIV. I'm familiar with CIM and SMI-S standard, I have published CIM Extrinsic Tool on AlphaWorks which simplifies extrinsic method calling. Also I am skilled in different storages configuration, and as a tester I gain much experience in test process and methodology.

Jin Xin Ying, IBM

Speaker bio

Jin Xin Ying is the staff software engineer in IBM China STG LAB. He has been working on IBM i CIM implementation for 5 years. He focus on OpenPegasus porting and IBM i CIM providers development.

Mark Carlson, Oracle

Speaker bio

Mark A. Carlson, Principal Cloud Strategist at Oracle, has more than 30 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than fifteen year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is the chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage, NDMP and XAM SDK technical working groups, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Oracle on the DMTF Technical Committee and serves as DMTF VP of Alliances.

Rekha Raghu, Intel

Speaker bio

Biography not provided

Joe Kozlowski, AMD

Speaker bio

Biography not provided

Scott Baker

Speaker bio

Scott Baker is recognized for his expertise in standards-based storage management. He has received several industry honors, including SNIA SMI Distinguished Engineer. Scott is currently working in the SNIA Cloud Storage Technical Working Group as an author-contributor to both the Cloud Data Management Interface(CDMI) specification and also as a developer on the CDMI reference implementation. A charter contributor to the Storage Management Initiative (SMI), he has authored several SMI-S profiles enabling interoperable management of high-availability, RAID mapping and iSCSI. Scott currently serves as chair of the SNIA Disk Resource Management Technical Working Group, and is a core voting member of the SMI Technical Steering Group. Scott holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California at Riverside.

Kevin Jones, Intel

Speaker bio

Biography not provided

Steve Carter, Novell

Speaker bio

Mr. Carter is a Novell Fellow focusing on issues surrounding identity, cloud infrastructure and services, and advanced network communication and collaboration. He currently is named on over 60 issued U.S. and E.U. patents. He is the recipient of the State of Utah’s 2004 Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology and was recognized in 2009 as a "Utah Genius" because of his patent work. He participates in several standards organizations including DMTF, IETF, W3C, and Oasis.

Before joining Novell in 1989, Carter worked 13 years as an industrial automation consultant for Eyring Research Institute. In that position, he automated and instrumented manufacturing plants for Fortune 500 companies including 3M, Alcoa, General Motors, General Electric, Lockheed, and Apple. Carter's focus was analyzing industrial processes and designing automation systems to gather process and product data and make manufacturing processes more efficient.

Carter holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.

Mark Johnson, IBM

Speaker bio

Mr. Johnson is co-chair of the DMTF's Cloud Management Working Group. He was a team lead in the DMTF's Open Cloud Standards Incubator, editing the Cloud Management Use Cases and Interactions (including data artifacts) document. He is IBM's representative for the DMTF's Open Virtualization Format specifications and co-chairs the DMTF's CMDB Federation Working Group. He previously chaired other working groups in the DMTF and in The Open Group. Within IBM he is responsible for cloud and virtualization standards, and for strategies and standards for federation of system management data. He has a long history as a product architect, chief programmer, and standards representative in these areas and in network management. He is certified in ITIL methodologies. He has published several papers and holds several patents. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

Derek Perronne, Hewlett Packard

Speaker bio

Biography not provided

Rich Ramos, Chief Technologist, Consultant

Speaker bio

Over the 18 years that Rich has been a storage industry professional he has served in many roles from tech sales to Chief Technolgist. He has focused in technology areas such as Cloud Storage, Object Storage, RAID and advanced file systems. Rich has represented his companies in associations and committees such as SNIA, T10-SCSI, T11-Fibrechannel, and IETF. Rich has been a member of the SNIA Cloud Storage Technical Work Group since it's inception in March 2009 and has contributed to both the CDMI specification as well as the CDMI Reference Implementation. Rich holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Hemma Prafullchandra, Chief Technology Officer, HyTrust, Inc.

Speaker bio

Hemma Prafullchandra is Hytrust’s Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company's security and compliance product innovations and strategy. As an evangelist for what's possible, she pushes the organization and the eco-system (partners, industry bodies, customers) to enable cost-effective, secure deployment of virtualization. She is an active participant in the PCI SSC Virtualization SIG, and a regular panelist on the Virtualization Security Roundtable podcast. Hemma brings over 20 years of industry experience in the field of security and distributed networking. Her expertise includes Solaris security, IPSec, Firewall, Certificate Authority/PKI, Java 2 Security Model, Secure Messaging, Web Services Security (WSS), Managed Security Services and Strong Authentication. Before joining HyTrust, Hemma was CTO of FuGen Solutions, a managed provider of federated identity interoperability and compliance services. During this time she co-chaired the Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance SIG. Prior to that, Hemma was VP of the Advanced Products and Research at VeriSign, where she led the development of numerous next-generation product concepts and co-authored specifications in various industry forums, including WSS and OpenID. Before VeriSign, Hemma held several management and technical positions at Sun Microsystems, Critical Path and The Wollongong Group. Hemma holds a BSc (Honors) in Computer Science with Electronic Engineering from UCL, England; and has authored several patents in the field of security.

Akash Malhotra, AMD

Speaker bio

Akash Malhotra is a Manageability Architect in the System Manageability group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, in Austin. He is currently co-chair of the System Management Forum (SMF), which sponsors the DASH and SMASH Conformance Programs and holds M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota (Twin Cities).

Masayuki Nakae, NEC

Speaker bio

Masayuki Nakae is a principal researcher of Service Platform Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation. He has been engaged in a system security research project since 2004. His current interest includes policy-based security management and privacy protection on cloud environments. In DMTF, he has been working for the standardization of integrated access control profile in Policy WG since 2008. He is also a member of Security WG and Cloud Management WG.

Charlton Barreto, Intel

Speaker bio

Charlton Barreto is a member of Intel’s End-User Platform Integration group focused on Cross-Platform Cloud and DC Cloud technologies. Charlton is currently working to drive platform strategy and architecture for Intel. He has worked over the last 15 years in architecting, developing and introducing new technologies in the Cloud, RIA, Web, and Distributed Computing markets. His more notable efforts include the development and standardization of Choreography, Process Management and Automation; Policy Management; Reliable Messaging, Service Definition, Discovery. He writes and present regularly on Cloud, Web and RIA strategies and technologies, and advises on what businesses and vendors can do with Cloud, and approach and leverage of Cloud models, architectures and technologies to meet strategic goals and business requirements.

Blake Dournaee - Intel SOA Products Group, Intel

Speaker bio

Blake Dournaee is currently the product manager responsible for Intel SOA products. As a product manager at Sarvega, he was deeply involved in the development of its flagship XML security, routing, and acceleration appliance products. Blake was a specialist in applied cryptography applications at RSA Security and was a frequent speaker at many RSA conferences throughout the US and Europe. Blake is an established author who wrote the first book on XML security and co-authored "SOA Demystified" from Intel press.

Broadcom Corporation

Brocade

CA

Dell

EMC Corporation

Hewlett Packard

IBM

Inova Development Inc.

Intel

Microsoft

NEC Corporation

Patni Computer System Ltd

PMC Sierra

QLogic Corporation

SUSE Linux Products GmbH

Unisys

VMware

WBEM Solutions, Inc.

Oracle

AMD

Novell

HyTrust