Distributed Management Task Force DMTF

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.

Read more about DMTF in the Overview Brochure PDF

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More information on DMTF Membership and how to join

For more information on The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) technologies and activities, please visit www.dmtf.org

The DMTF is also participating in a group that will coordinate cloud standards across Standard Development Organizations (SDOs). The new group has a Cloud Standards Coordination wiki at cloud-standards.org.

Contributions

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.

They have established relationships with many SDOs through its alliance partner program and is actively expanding those alliances to leverage existing and future DMTF standards, such as OVF. With the recent formation of the DMTF Open Cloud Standards Incubator the coordination of DMTF standards with these SDOs and industry groups will be key to minimizing overlap and identifying any gaps between the standards.
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

This specification describes an open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines.