Distributed Management Task Force - Incubators

Incubators

• Open Cloud Standards Incubator – The Open Cloud Standards Incubator was a DMTF group focused on standards for facilitating management interoperability between private clouds within enterprises and between private, public and hybrid clouds. Initial priorities include cloud resource management protocols, packaging formats and security mechanisms to help enable interoperability. The group developed a set of documents including an architecture for managing clouds, use cases and interactions for managing clouds and a white paper titled "The Interoperable Cloud". The group completed its chartered deliverables in August 2010. DMTF's cloud standards development work is now being handled by the Cloud Management Workgroup, the Cloud Auditing Data Federation Workgroup and the System Virtualization, Partitioning, and Clustering Work Group.
• Software License Management Incubator(SLM) - The Software License Management Incubator is working to develop white papers which focus on challenges to enabling the industry to manage licensed software products and product use. The SLM incubator employs key leaders in the IT management space, and also has representation from end user organizations such as JP Morgan Chase. The group developed a whitepaper titled "Software Identification and Entitlement Usage Metrics", completed in 2012. This white paper describes a representative set of use cases for cloud, data center, virtualization, and on-premise needs. It also provides recommendations on technology standards to consider to sufficiently identify licensed software products, and to trace and gather the use of the software and other entitlement usage metrics across the span of deployments.