DMTF President, Winston Bumpus presented sessions covering the organisation´s work on Cloud Computing and Virtualisation Management. These sessions were amongst the most popular due to his genuine in-depth knowledge, snappy delivery and relevance in today´s market.

With Phil´s wealth of experience in CMDB implementations, he particularly enjoyed the joint presentation of CMDBf (federation of CMDB data) by industry leader BMC and IBM. Vince Kowalski and Mark Johnson shared the stage and spoke about the principles, benefits, development and adoption of federation standards for CMDB.

A follow-up session presented by Digant Kasundra from Stanford University covered an actual implementation of a CMDB using the DMTF CMDBf standards and based on a leading commercial CMDB product. This grounding of the theory into the reality of implementation and operational use, served to impress the normally cynical Phil, who himself is only too familiar with the technical, security, and even political challenges and, of course, the strategies for surmounting them.

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Phil Hogan will be following the CMDB track, covering the motivation behind the specification, the use cases that are driving the work, the architecture, the data model, services and the current status of the specification. This will be presented as technical detail, walk through examples and demonstrations.

Tiberone’s consultants always strive to deliver practical and comprehensive solutions to their customers, by following the best Standardised Models in the industry. Phil’s goal is to provide them with this information – giving them the leading edge they need.

¹ Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.