Microsoft and Industry Partners Submit WS-Management Specification

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Friday, September 16, 2005; 12:32 PM

Today at Enterprise Management World, Microsoft Corp. announced that it, along with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), BMC Software Inc., Computer Associates, Dell Inc., Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, Intel Corporation, NEC Corp., Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Symantec Corp. and WBEM Solutions Inc., has submitted the Web Services for Management (WS-Management) specification to the Distributed Management Task Force Inc. (DMTF) for further refinement and finalization as a Web services-based management standard.

The Web services specification addresses the cost and complexity of IT management by providing a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across their entire IT infrastructure.

“The submission of WS-Management to the DMTF marks the first step toward more interoperable, scalable and secure systems management based on a common protocol standard,” said Felicity McGourty, director of Marketing at Microsoft.

“CA is pleased to work with the co-authors and the DMTF to make WS-Management the standard for applying Web services technologies to desktop management,” said Saqib Syed, director of Unicenter product management at Computer Associates (CA).

“WS-Management is the future external interface for Intel Active Management Technologies,” said Lorie Wigle, marketing director for the Manageability and Platform Software Division at Intel.

“Customers want simplicity in all aspects of IT infrastructure management, especially when it comes to managing systems in the data center. WS-Management is a key component in enabling customers to simplify heterogeneous deployment and ultimately lower TCO across the entire data center,” said Sohrab Modi, vice president of N1 Systems at Sun Microsystems.

“WS-Management has proven to be scalable to meet the most demanding embedded implementation in our product line,” said Swen Anderson, CTO at Peppercon. “Our KIRA 100 ASIC-based solutions stand representatively for Peppercon’s complete platform controlling KVM-over-IP product line.”