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OASIS COLLABORATION DEFINES WEB
MANAGEMENT FOR GRIDS
The OASIS interoperability consortium announced plans to define a standard
way
of using Web services architecture and technology to manage distributed
resources. The new OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Technical
Committee will closely align its work with related activities at other
standards groups, including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Services
Architecture Working Group and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF),
and with other OASIS security and Web services efforts.
"As the number of Web services deployed across the extended enterprise
increases, the ability to effectively manage those services will become
critical to building out a comprehensive services-oriented architecture," said
Winston Bumpus of Novell, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee. "By
collaborating with other ongoing industry standards activities in this area,
this new technical committee will play a important role in defining how
services should be managed."
Heather Kreger of IBM, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee,
added,
"This work is immediately relevant for business integrators who use Web
services, management system vendors, and Web service platform vendors. It also
applies to ongoing work being done by business, government, and university
sectors on provisioning, management, grid, and on-demand computing."
Initial members of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical
Committee include Actional, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Confluent
Software, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Novell, OpenNetwork, SeeBeyond, Sun
Microsystems, Waveset, webMethods, and others.
Industry Support for WSDM
"BMC Software is pleased to be part of the OASIS Web Services Distributed
Management Technical Committee," said Mary Smars, vice president, product
management and development, PATROL, BMC Software. "As a leader in systems
management, we understand that while Web services brings the opportunity for
organizations to share data across companies to work together, it also brings
significant management challenges. BMC's goal is to help streamline and
improve manageability of these services so that all can benefit from a strong
Web Services environment."
"Web services are bringing a new dimension to interoperability and are
dramatically affecting the way we manage the IT environment," said Dmitri
Tcherevik, vice president in the Office of the CTO at Computer Associates. "CA
is committed to supporting industry-wide initiatives to ensure the standards-
based manageability of this evolving IT environment, so that customers can
gain its full business benefits while optimizing the efficiency of their IT
operations."
"The industry has recognized that Web service management is a core
requirement
for mission-critical deployment of distributed applications. As a leading
provider of Web services management products, Confluent Software is pleased to
support the formation of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee," said Dr. Sekhar
Sarukkai, co-founder and CTO, Confluent Software Inc. "Confluent will
contribute key customer learnings in order to help the new committee
successfully deliver on the creation of a Web services-based architecture and
technology--in line with what enterprises have told us they need."
"HP is focusing strategic investments in improved manageability, including
management of Web services and management through Web services, critical to
offering customers the flexibility, adaptability and the economic benefit they
require," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president, HP Software Global Business
Unit. "As the recognized leader in adaptive management software, HP is
committed to the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee; and, on behalf of our
customers, we are working with strategic partners to reduce the complexity and
costs of managing technology."
"Management is a key component in the Web services stack, and the ability
to
manage Web services between enterprises and across disparate computing
platforms is critical," said Heather Kreger of IBM. "Providing a way to help
enable and advance resource management will create new business opportunities
for vendors and developers. We are excited to be working with the Web services
and management communities to develop these necessary specifications."
"Just as security is a prime concern for our customers looking to deploy
Web
services, so too is the need to effectively manage those distributed Web
services across their organizations - and the WSDM standard will provide an
ideal vehicle to accomplish this," said Winston Bumpus, director of standards
for Novell. "To that end, Novell brings a wealth of experience in network
management to this technical committee, and we are pleased to provide
leadership in the important work being conducted by this group."
"With every new wave of technology adoption comes a new set of management
challenges. Waveset is committed to providing innovative security management
solutions that address these challenges for its customers and partners," says
Darran Rolls, Director of Technology for Waveset Technologies Inc. "Defining a
standards-based management model for Web services will be a critical part of
the end-to-end systems architecture for successful Web services
deployments."
"webMethods has played a very active role in writing and promoting
management
standards based on Web services technologies, exemplified by our efforts in
co-creating the OMI specification," said Matt Green, director, Business
Technology Group, webMethods, Inc. "We consider our work with the OASIS Web
Services Distributed Management Technical Committee to be important for the
future development of a Web services management framework. We look forward to
helping further drive the adoption of Web services by providing a simple and
cost-effective means to manage Web services and other resources in the
production environment."
About OASIS
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards)
is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the
OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed
to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces
worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business
transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within
and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000
participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100
countries.
Web site: www.oasis-open.org
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