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IBM puts WSDM behind IT automation

IBM has come out with a new package of services and software to promote greater automation of IT operations, and Web services is being employed throughout. The mechanism by which a lot of the inter-systems play that is required for automation is the WSDM standard, or Web Services...

Tags: Web service, WSDM

Blog posts 2005-07-08

WSDM: Not-so-conventional wisdom

For you standards aficionados out there -- and you know who you are -- there's another spec now out for public review. The OASIS Technical Committee that oversees development of the Web Services Distributed Management, or WSDM (pronounced "Wisdom") specification, will be accepting comments through January 10, 2005. When it...

Tags: WSDM, Web service, Web

Blog posts 2004-12-14

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Gartner: Web services standardization process has 'lost momentum'

OASIS has recently conferred official "standards" status on WS-Notification, which provides a standardized way for one Web service or other entity to disseminate information to another set of Web services without having to have prior knowledge of those services. WS-Notification standardizes the way Web services interact using "Notifications" or...

Tags: Gartner Inc., OASIS, WS-Notification OASIS, WS-Eventing, Web, Web service, specification

Blog posts 2006-10-24

Start-ups team to push open-source boundaries

Start-ups team to push open-source boundariesplanned convergence of WS-Man and WSDMThe article doesn't mention that IBM, Microsoft, HP, and Intel announced on March 15, 2006, their intention to collaborate to "develop a common set of [Web Services] specifications for resources, events, and management that can be broadly supported across multiple...

Tags: Team management, start-ups team, open-source boundary, open source, Microsoft Corp., team

Discussion threads 2006-07-21

SOA and the Web Services Distributed Management Standard

Here's a quick-and-dirty resource on the role of the Web Services Distributed Management WSDM standard and how it can help companies build flexibility into their IT infrastructures. The paper explains what WSDM means for the development of system management applications within a service-oriented architecture SOA and offers links to important...

Tags: Web, Web Service, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

White papers 2006-01-13

2006: 'broad and deep' SOA adoption ahead

Yankee Group issued its latest survey findings on SOA adoption among 300 US companies, concluding that "2006 will be a benchmark year" for SOA. "What once was used primarily by large enterprises to rescue applications and processes in distress is now reaching ubiquitous implementation in the US, regardless of size...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2005-08-23

IBM puts WSDM behind IT automation

IBM puts WSDM behind IT automationIts like .NETClone a copy of Java, and then remove the platform-independent piece! Uh, WHY? To corrupt it into being PROPRIETARY!SOA is web services, that get built up into applications that can EXIST ANYWHERE - you just connect to it to use it. Location independence...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, information technology, IBM Corp., SOA, Web service, Web

Discussion threads 2005-07-08

First Steps Toward the Data Center of the Future

This paper discusses key examples of enabling technologies and processes that will predominate in the DCF yet are ready for adoption today, including x86, Windows, Linux, server virtualization, automated change and configuration management, information life-cycle management, Web Services Distributed Management WSDM, and IT Infrastructure Library ITIL. The use of such...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, ITIL, Data Centers, Virtualization, Process Improvement, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), It Services, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Quality, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Servers

White papers 2004-11-01