{"id":3386,"date":"2012-08-29T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=8f9d00a4c387cfde929c57d54ac1d94e"},"modified":"2012-08-29T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:55:00","slug":"dmtf-releases-specification-for-simplifying-cloud-infrastructure-management-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/dmtf-releases-specification-for-simplifying-cloud-infrastructure-management-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DMTF Releases Specification for Simplifying Cloud Infrastructure Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"org fn\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmtf.org%2F&amp;esheet=50390681&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Distributed+Management+Task+Force+%28DMTF%29&amp;index=1&amp;md5=6e1dac9a744a97e69b1c1806d3ebf8b7\">Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)<\/a>, the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced the release of the new Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) specification. The new specification standardizes interactions between cloud environments to achieve interoperable cloud infrastructure management between service providers and their consumers and developers, enabling users to manage their cloud infrastructure use easily and without complexity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing allows customers to improve the efficiency, availability and flexibility of their IT systems over time. As companies have adopted cloud computing, vendors have embraced the need to provide interoperability between enterprise computing and cloud services. DMTF developed CIMI as a self-service interface for infrastructure clouds, allowing users to dynamically provision, configure and administer their cloud usage with a high-level interface that greatly simplifies cloud systems management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CIMI standard is a critical piece for cloud infrastructure management because it alleviates complexity while improving flexibility, portability and security,\u201d said Winston Bumpus, Chairman of the Board, DMTF. \u201cWith the release of the CIMI v1.0 specification, DMTF offers a well-rounded, industry-wide solution for simplifying cloud infrastructure management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-11966\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s release includes two components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface \u2013 (CIMI) Model and REST<br \/>\nInterface over HTTP Specification<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface \u2013 (CIMI) Primer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CIMI specification is the centerpiece of DMTF\u2019s Cloud Management Initiative, and is the first standard created by the Cloud Management Working Group (CMWG). <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmtf.org%2Fstandards%2Fcloud&amp;esheet=50390681&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=DMTF%27s+Cloud+Management+Initiative&amp;index=2&amp;md5=8fe18e2fde48ae63b71813fd84bb29bf\">DMTF\u2019s Cloud Management Initiative<\/a> includes contributions from additional working groups including the Cloud Auditing Data Federation Working Group (CADF WG), the Network Services Management Working Group (NSM WG), the Software License Management (SLM) Incubator and the System Virtualization, Partitioning, and Clustering Working Group (SVPC WG). Additional announcements are expected from DMTF cloud-related working groups early next year.<\/p>\n<p>DMTF working groups and incubators collaborate with a number of industry organizations in an effort to unify their cloud management initiatives. These organizations include the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), the China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI), the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Open Grid Forum (OGF), the Object Management Group (OMG), The Open Group (TOG), the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum (GICTF) and the TeleManagement Forum (TMF).<\/p>\n<p>For additional information on DMTF\u2019s cloud efforts, including specifications, whitepapers and charters, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmtf.org\/cloud\">www.dmtf.org\/cloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=0c34b5eb-49c8-4f4c-ba5f-2bef95c05cdc\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fjbNSS0xcYf7Yg3njVj0B2k-UsI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fjbNSS0xcYf7Yg3njVj0B2k-UsI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fjbNSS0xcYf7Yg3njVj0B2k-UsI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fjbNSS0xcYf7Yg3njVj0B2k-UsI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/hfEmYFBmoEo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New CIMI v1.0 standard focused on achieving interoperable cloud        infrastructure management     PORTLAND, Ore.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;The Distributed        Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT        industry togethe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[849,850,851,852,853,854,762,855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-security-alliance","category-distributed-management-task-force","category-object-management-group","category-open-data-center-alliance","category-open-grid-forum","category-open-group","category-standards","category-storage-networking-industry-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}