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March 25, 2005
QoS Labs LLC, a leading
company in solutions and services based on standards and best practices
related with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), announced that it
became a member of the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) as part of its
continuous SOA-related research and development efforts to keep close
contact with the service management standards community.
DMTF is the industry
organization leading the development of management standards and
integration technology for enterprise and Internet environments. DMTF
technologies include information models (CIM), communication/control
protocols (WBEM), and core management services/utilities.
QoS Labs decided to
join the DMTF due to its focus on a standardized common platform to
describe complex management environments, associate elements of the
management environment and integrate various management
technologies--applying its standards to describe Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT). DMTF is backed up by leading technology
companies in various fields such as internetworking, DBMS, storage,
applications, security, etc.
The WBEM framework and
the CIM Core and Common Model recommendations were adopted for the design
of the appCarrier SOA since
DMTF’s early times, looking for a standardized solution to represent the
customer ICT inventory and create associations among elements that
participate in the customer’s electronic services. All appCarrier SOA Management Framework services (vpeServices) use the CIM repository
to represent and persist management element objects reutilized by the
various management function sets (Fault, Configuration, Accounting,
Performance and Management).
QoS Labs has combined
the CIM object model with semantic technologies in order to facilitate the
representation of domains and ontology applied to the complex enterprise
and Governmental ICT management environments. DMTF’s CIM offers a common
data model backed up by the leading companies in various ICT fields who agree
on how to describe management objects and how to interoperate with them.
QoS Labs takes advantage of the CIM object libraries combined with common
interfaces (XML, Web Services, Java) and metadata (Dublin Core) contained
in its proprietary ICT knowledgebase. Through this powerful combination of
DMTF standards, Semantics and metadata standards, the appCarrier SOA describes elements, applications, services and
business processes, and associates them to other components of the customer
virtual management environment—all via standards.
Another main reason why
QoS Labs was interested in DMTF is that WBEM / CIM are being integrated
into CIM-compliant commercial applications. One good example is QoS Labs’
relationship with EMC2/Smarts which was the first company to incorporate
CIM as the core of its object model for correlation and root cause
analysis. Another good example is Cisco, a QoS Labs’ strategic partner and
a DMTF Board member. Cisco actively contributes to the DMTF standards and
is incorporating the WBEM / CIM standards into its core technologies.
QoS Labs certified
management enabling components are CIM-compliant. Many components are
developed by QoS Labs and some certified components are provided by leading
technology companies. Other XML / Web Services enabling components allow
extending the appCarier SOA
interoperability for neutral service-oriented integration and management.
About the DMTF
With more than 3,000
active participants, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is
the industry organization leading the development of management standards
and integration technology for enterprise and Internet environments. DMTF
standards provide common management infrastructure components for
instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and
technology neutral way. DMTF technologies include CIM,
communication/control protocols like the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative,
and core management services/utilities. Information about DMTF's standards
and activities can be found at www.dmtf.org.
Press
contact:
Karen Strong
DMTF
503-220-1668
press@dmtf.org
About QoS Labs
QoS Labs offers neutral
consulting, integration, provisioning, and management of Web Services
for the enterprise and Government markets. QoS Labs’ SOA enabling
technologies and reference architecture allow its customers to leverage
their e-Business strategies, in order to gain agility and management
control, reutilize existing IT assets, reduce operational costs, and
minimize complexity of their ICT integration environments and core business
process automation. QoS Labs’ enabling technologies, Best Practices and
service-oriented solutions can be found at www.qoslabs.com.
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