Management MonogatariTales of Resource Management from Mark A. CarlsonEarly Draft of Management Frameworks Architecture- June 19, 2007 The Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI) as well as CIM and WBEM have laid the foundation for interoperable management by providing an information model and interoperable protocols for instrumentation of storage, server and other resources. Greater productivity has been achieved for management software vendors by freeing up engineers formerly tasked with maintaining one-off device adapters. They can now create a single adapter that works with any device of a given type. When...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/early_draft_of_management_frameworks XAM API early draft specifications available- June 14, 2007 You have probably heard about XAM (eXtensible Access Method) before. It is a new type of storage API for applications to deal with Fixed Content. It was originally contributed to the SNIA last year and has made significant progress since then. Now the SNIA has published an early draft of the standard so that application vendors can get started on planning their use. The XAM Architecture Specification version 0.6 is the meat of the standard. It describes the concepts and details the expected..http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/xam_api_early_draft_specifications |