Management MonogatariTales of Resource Management from Mark A. CarlsonMicrosoft Manages Solaris!- April 30, 2008 Wow! This is big. Microsoft just announced that they will be able to manage Solaris 10 systems from their Systems Center product. This is in addition to support for various Linux systems as well. This cross platform support uses the latest management standards from the DMTF, including WS-Management and CIM. Microsoft actually installs a CIMOM on the OS to be managed. This common infrastructure is used to host the Microsoft created CIM provider that instruments the operating system. The...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/microsoft_manages_solaris XAM 1.0 major milestone- April 7, 2008 The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) 1.0 specifications are now available as work in progress drafts on the SNIA web site. This includes the XAM Architecture spec (details all the semantics of the XAM interface), the XAM Java API (Java language binding) and the XAM C API (C language binding). SNIA also issued a press release announcing this and the code donations by Sun, EMC and HP to the XAM SDK effort. The XAM SDK is a toolkit and source code that implements XAM and will be made available...http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/xam_1_0_major_milestone |