Thank you for your continued DMTF membership!

As we wrap up DMTF’s fiscal year, it is time to begin the renewal process for DMTF membership.  Your Company’s ongoing participation in DMTF’s efforts to define and develop interoperable management standards is greatly needed and appreciated. The organization had a banner year in 2017 and we are looking forward to an even better 2018. DMTF Board Chair Jon Hass will share his thoughts on the year ahead in our upcoming February newsletter, so keep an eye on your inbox and be sure to read it!

Early Registration is Now Open for APTS 2018

DMTF will host its Alliance Partner Technical Symposium (APTS) from July 23-27 in Portland, Oregon.  APTS is co-hosted with our alliance partner, Storage Network Industry Alliance (SNIA). The symposium includes face-to-face meetings focused on technical topics and addresses the technical works of interest to DMTF’s alliance partners. You can register today!

DMTF Releases Redfish 2017.3

DMTF’s aggressive development of Redfish® continues, with Version 2017.3 now available. The goal of Redfish is to publish a standard API to meet customer demands for simple and secure management in modern Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) environments, and the latest release includes updates to both the Specification and the Schemas.

DMTF Releases CIM 2.50

The latest release of the Common Information Model (CIM) Schema, version 2.50 is now available. This news marks an impressive DMTF milestone - fifty updates to the Common Information Model (CIM) since the launch of 2.0.

This widely-used standard provides a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications and services. The fifty releases are evidence of DMTF’s ongoing commitment to keeping CIM up-to-date to address the latest industry needs.

DMTF and Broadband Forum Form Alliance

DMTF and Broadband Forum (BBF) have formed an alliance to help ensure the two organizations’ standards are coordinated and aligned in order to enable broadband operators and users to deploy cloud services and applications.

New Redfish® Open Source Software on GitHub

Continuing its open approach to the development of the Redfish® standard, DMTF has released new open source tools for testing, validation and other areas on its  public GitHub repository.

A Year-in-Review with DMTF President Jeff Hilland

Each year, I have the privilege of reviewing the many accomplishments of the DMTF for the past twelve months. I’m happy to share the top milestones for 2017 – another tremendous year for the organization!

DMTF to Present Redfish Tutorial at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

At the upcoming IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2017), in Austin, Texas, DMTF President Jeff Hilland will present a tutorial on DMTF’s Redfish®. If you’ll be at the event, join us on Wednesday, December 6, from 10:30 a.m. to Noon, for this deep dive session on the goals, architecture, protocol, data model and surrounding adoption efforts for Redfish.

It’s Not Too Early to Think About DMTF Membership!

Mark it off the to-do-list! DMTF membership renewals are due early in the New Year, but you can renew today! Click here to join or to renew your membership. 

Congratulations to DMTF’s 2017 Super Star Award Recipients

DMTF is pleased to recognize Jon Hass (Dell Inc.) and John Leung (Intel Corporation) as this year’s DMTF Super Star Award recipients – DMTF’s equivalent of a lifetime achievement award.