Management Matters this month:

FEATURES

• Message from the Chairman: Welcome New Board Members
  
• VP Feature: Your Feedback Directs the Marketing Committee
  
• Alliance Partner Feature: Open Grid Forum
• Preliminary Specs for Member Review
• Four Final Standards Now Available
• Virtualization Management Initiative Subcommittee

EVENTS

• Recap on MMS 2008
• DMTF Hosts Hospitality Suite at Catalyst 2008
• Register for NGDC 2008
• DMTF Sponsors the Storage Developer Conference
• MDC Call for Presentations Deadline

REGULARS

• 2008 Member Survey Results: Key DMTF Areas
• Call for Contributors
• Member Feedback Welcomed

Message from the Chairman: Welcome New Board Members

By Mike Baskey, DMTF Chairman

DMTF recently added three new members to its board of directors to bring additional energy and leadership into the organization. As we continue to advance IT management to the next level, even more leading companies are taking an active role in our efforts to further expand our contributions within the industry. I view the board expansion as a strong indication that we’re increasing the relevance in the work we’re doing. I’m looking forward to working with these new board members to increase the influence we have on industry developments.

I’m pleased to see CA on the board now – as a company focused primarily on management and with their involvement in CMDB federation, I see them helping to define more end-to-end solutions and more integration across the various towers of management domains we deal with.

As a leader in both the database and application server space, Oracle’s return to the board will help enhance our ability to address more of the software aspects around server and virtual server management.

VMware has significantly shaped the virtualization industry through its contributions in the virtualization and now virtual appliance/image realm. VMware is helping advance the industry in the increasingly important area of energy management for data centers.

I also wanted to highlight the forthcoming DMTF member survey. The marketing committee and the board are working to make this year’s survey more definitive. We plan to include questions that solicit crucial feedback about the challenges that the membership sees in the DMTF moving forward. Some of the areas we’re looking to improve include: working more effectively with alliance partners, broadening the scope of the work we do, and running the organization more efficiently. We want to tap the wealth of technical knowledge and industry insights of our membership. I urge you to work through your committees and your companies to bring forward ideas that will help us focus on the important problems and develop the type of innovative collaboration that will make the organization more effective and efficient.

It will be a very exciting year, and I’m looking forward to working with the entire organization to make these possibilities a reality. As always, please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments at chair@dmtf.org.

Mike Baskey
DMTF Chairman

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