AMD is showcasing some of its ongoing development work to help support the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) WS-Management specification at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona November 14-17.  WS-Management, or the Web Services for Management specification, helps promote management interoperability between various management applications and managed systems.

Management interoperability is key to keeping down management costs for IT organizations.  Most IT organizations today have deployed a heterogeneous mix of platforms and technologies, such as virtualization.  Management interoperability allows IT administrators to manage such a datacenter environment while lowering TCO and complexity.

AMD is demonstrating a variety of typical monitoring and diagnostics scenarios using WS-Management support provided by both Microsoft and Avocent Corporation.  The demonstrations also utilize management cards supporting OPMA (Open Platform Management Architecture).  OPMA is an open specification that defines a common interface between the server platform and management subsystem.  OPMA is the product of an ongoing collaboration with partners and OPMA-enabled management cards and motherboards are now available.

The demonstrations will be available in the TechEd Exhibition Hall at AMD's booth (stand number A13).  The demonstrations will also be shown in session MGT316:  WS-Management: Heterogeneous Application Systems Management and Problem Solving.