Tech biggies aim to cut costs in WS management

NEW DELHI: AMD, Dell, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have announced the publication of Web Services Management (WS-Management), a Web services specification that addresses the cost and complexity of IT management by providing a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across their entire IT systems.

According to the press release, by using Web services to manage IT systems, deployments that support WS-Management will enable IT managers to remotely access devices on their networks, regardless of whether the systems are just out of the box, powered down or otherwise unavailable. Further, WS-Management supports a full spectrum of usage scenarios. These include the management of everything from silicon components and handheld devices to PCs, servers and large-scale data centers.

WS-Management provides a valuable foundation for the next generation of management applications because of the breadth of functionality it supports combined with its ability to take advantage of the rich security, reliability and transactional features of WS-*, the Web services architecture.

Microsoft plans to support WS-Management in the next release of Microsoft Windows Server and the next release of Microsoft Operations Manager. Intel plans to support WS-Management in its platform building blocks and will announce specific plans at a future date.

The WS-Management specification has been published at the following locations:

AMD: http://www.amd.com/webservices

Dell: http://www.dell.com/standards

Intel: http://www.intel.com/technology/manage

Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ws/2004/10/ws-management

Sun: http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/webservices/management

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