Distributed Management Task Force DMTF

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) enables more effective management of millions of IT systems worldwide by bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on the development, validation and promotion of systems management standards. The group spans the industry with 160 member companies and organizations, and more than 4,000 active participants crossing 43 countries. The DMTF board of directors is led by 16 innovative, industry-leading technology companies. They include Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Broadcom Corporation, CA, Inc, Citrix Systems, Inc, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, Ltd, IBM, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Novell, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Inc, and VMware, Inc. With this deep and broad reach, DMTF creates standards that enable interoperable IT management. DMTF management standards are critical to enabling management interoperability among multi-vendor systems, tools and solutions within the enterprise.

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Research Projects

Cloud Standards Coordination Overview and Contributing Organizations

Cloud-standards.org is a Wiki site for Cloud Standards Coordination. The goal of the wiki is to document the activities of the various SDOs working on Cloud Standards. Cloud-standards.org is an initiative for editing and sharing a general cloud computing standardization positioning, in which more relevant cloud standardization initiatives can be seen and related. The first informal proposal of the positioning can be seen at cloud standards positioning.

DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator
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 is working with other SDOs on coordinating Cloud standardization efforts at cloud-standards.org.