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Standards and Technology
DMTF provides standard management tools supported by numerous hardware, software and services vendors. Standards-based management allows you to select the best products for today without worrying about propietary hassles in the future.
Featured Initiative: DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator
Incubator Launched to Address Management Interoperability for Cloud Systems
Technologies like cloud computing and virtualization are rapidly being adopted by enterprise IT managers to better deliver services to their customers, lower IT costs and improve operational efficiencies.
DMTF’s Open Cloud Standards Incubator will focus on standardizing interactions between cloud environments by developing cloud resource management protocols, packaging formats and security mechanisms to facilitate interoperability.
DMTF Standards Defined
Management Initiatives
Management initiatives are built upon DMTF technologies, and deliver functionality to specific vertical applications and industries. Management Initiatives include:
- Common Information Model (CIM)
- CIM is a common data model of an implementation-neutral schema for describing overall management information in a network/enterprise environment.
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
- WBEM is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments.
- Alert Standard Format (ASF)
- This specification defines remote control and alerting interfaces that best serve clients' OS-absent environments.
- System Management BIOS (SMBIOS)
- The SMBIOS Specification addresses how motherboard and system vendors present management information about their products in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on x86 architecture systems.
- Desktop Management Interface (DMI)
- DMI generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop pc, notebook or server. Due to the rapid advancement of DMTF technologies, such as CIM, the DMTF defined an "End of Life" process for DMI, which ended March 31, 2005.
DMTF Technologies Diagram
DMTF’s technologies are designed to work together to address the industry’s needs and requirements for interoperable distributed management. These standards provide well-defined interfaces that build upon each other, delivering end-to-end management capabilities and interoperability. The interrelationships between the DMTF technologies in this diagram deliver incremental value throughout the stack, building added value with each additional layer that is implemented.
More about how DMTF Standards and Initiatives relate to each other »
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DMTF Feedback Policy
The DMTF welcomes feedback on our standards, but requires that individuals submitting comments first agree to our DMTF Feedback Policy. Note that current DMTF members should not use this feedback system - instead, submit feedback via email to the DMTF's Vice President of Technology.
DMTF Conformance Programs
DMTF conformance programs test programs to promote management interoperability between products that support DMTF standards.