Management MonogatariTales of Resource Management from Mark A. CarlsonStandards and Software for Storage- April 6, 2007 Open Source software and standards can be used to complement each other, as the SNIA has realized over the last year. Late last year SNIA changed its governance documents to allow the development of software within the organization and to endorse that software with a member vote - as if it were a specification. Now the first Technical Work Group (TWG) has been formed to work on a software project inside this "Gated Community" of the SNIA. The XAM SDK TWG This TWG has been chartered with a...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/standards_and_software_for_storage Sun's Commitment to Open Standards- April 5, 2007 One of the hats I wear for Sun is to serve on the DMTF Board of Directors as Sun's representative. The DMTF recently had a Board election (for which they just released results) - they do this every two years. Sun was re-elected to the board for another 4 years. The DMTF is best known for its Common Information Model (CIM) used throughout the industry as the information model underlying much of the resource instrumentation being deployed. I have blogged here in the past about some of the work..http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/sun_s_commitment_to_open New Policy Language from the DMTF- April 2, 2007 If you have ever had to implement a policy system to automate the management of distributed resources, the first thing you discover is that you need a set of interfaces to the resources that need to be monitored and controlled. Creating such a system can quickly get bogged down as you spend most of your time in creating adapters from your policy system to these resources. You can have the most interesting and sophisticated policies to deploy, but unless they can act against the real world,...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/new_policy_language_from_the |