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Building on its ongoing industry leadership in open standards development, IBM today unveiled a set of software development tools that leverage open standards, helping customers ease IT management burdens.
IBM reported the following details:
The new software from IBM helps developers embrace the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard, which applies a common management interface across the environment and enables management software from different vendors to work together.
Companies today use software and hardware from different vendors to run their businesses, and as a result, they wrestle with the complexity of managing multiple systems with multiple management tools. Just as the HTML standard allowed interoperability on the Web, IT vendors like IBM are taking advantage of the WSDM standard to help customers manage resources -- like applications, servers or databases -- from different vendors in a standardized way.
The WSDM standard resulted from a collaborative industry effort and was approved this year by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) standards body. The standard provides the foundation for enabling the use of Web services to build management applications, offering one set of instrumentation to manage resources. WSDM is an important milestone in the evolution of systems management. Coupled with virtualization technology, the WSDM standard opens the door to self-managing autonomic resources, and SOA-based management.
In addition to providing software for developers to take advantage of the standard, IBM has products available today that include initial implementations of WSDM such as IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, as well as 30 products that support the initial WSDM event format. IBM plans to incorporate the WSDM standard into future products delivered by the WebSphere, Tivoli, and IBM Systems groups over the next 12 months. One example, available early next year, is the Resource Dependency Service component of the Virtualization Engine Platform. The inclusion of WSDM in IBM’s product portfolio will help customers facilitate more seamless interoperability between systems management solutions in real-world multi-vendor IT environments “It’s clear that customers want to take advantage of the latest technology but are prevented from doing so when they’re crippled with complexity,” said Ric Telford, vice president of Autonomic Computing for IBM. “IBM is helping address this issue by not only embedding open management standards in our own products, but helping drive other developers in the industry to do the same by providing this new portfolio of software tools around WSDM.”
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