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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (14674)	10/16/2002 12:36:23 AM
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And here to entertain us tonight are Big Blue and Friends. Let's all give them a big hand, shall we, as they frolic in the openness of a land called Hannalee....<g> Storage vendors pledge CIM products by 2003 By Kevin Komiega, News Writer 15 Oct 2002, SearchStorage.com A new alliance has been formed in the world of storage management standards. Hitachi Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Veritas Software Corp., announced Tuesday a new effort dedicated to the progress of Common Information Model (CIM), Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology and Storage Management Initiative (SMI) specifications for management in storage area networks. As part of this effort, the companies pledged to roll out CIM/WBEM-based products sometime during 2003. WBEM is a standard set of Web-based enterprise management tools that unify management of enterprise computing environments. WBEM includes CIM, which acts as an encoding specification based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) and a transport mechanism based on Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP), according to the SNIA. CIM is an object-oriented information model that provides a conceptual view of physical and logical system components. According to the SNIA, CIM acts as a superset of all existing storage hardware and software functionality that is independent of platform and works entirely over the Internet. Evaluator Group Inc. analyst Randy Kerns said that users should assume that all vendors will work to conform to the prevailing solutions. "Today that is APIs," he said, "and in the future [it] will be CIM." But Kerns cautioned that users should not mistake marketing efforts for real products. "To make a marketing campaign out of what the details are and what you will support in the future usually indicates a company may not be in the forefront and may want to distract people," Kerns said. In fact, all of the participating vendors along with Hewlett Packard Co., and EMC Corp., have already pledged support for CIM.... searchstorage.techtarget.com