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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Fwd: Standards Watch: Service Modeling Language; Demo Show Doesn't Do Complexity


Rex
Maybe this will help
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dsi/serviceml.mspx
 
Sally

Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com> wrote:
If a second draft of SML was published in
November, it managed to miss me. Anybody known
anything more about this beastie? Sorry for any
duplicated postings, but I wanted to get a wide
audience on this.

Cheers,
Rex

>Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:06:38 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Network Computing
>Newsletter"
>To: rexb@starbourne.com
>Subject: Standards Watch: Service Modeling
>Language; Demo Show Doesn't Do Complexity
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> Network Computing Newsletter- Monday, February 5, 2007
>
>
>
> Everyone
>loves a big, vendor-studded standards effort--if
>it works. That's always the rub, isn't it? In
>this issue,
>we
>take a close look at SML, or Service Modeling
>Language, a multivendor effort to create a
>common vocabulary for describing literally
>*everything* in an IT environment--hardware,
>software, applications and, eventually,
>services. The idea is that standard descriptions
>will make it easier for management products from
>different vendors to share information about the
>assets they manage.
>
>SML's supporters represent a who's who of IT
>vendors: BEA Systems, BMC Software, Cisco
>Systems, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
>Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
>
>So, what are SML's prospects? It's still early,
>but things look good. A second version of the
>spec was published in November, and the group is
>aiming to turn its work over to a
>still-to-be-named standards body sometime this
>quarter--with a goal of creating a standard
>sometime next year.
>
>It's no surprise that many of the players behind
>SML are also architecting their management
>products around configuration management
>databases, or CMDBs. The easier it is to bring
>asset data into CMDBs, the more they will be
>adopted by customers. If you're interested in
>SML and simplifying IT management, go deeper
>into this story by reading our
>recent
>analysis of CMDBs:. Also check out our in-depth
>RFI
>analysis of the leading service-management
>vendors and
>get
>the low down on ITL, or IT Infrastructure
>Library, another major industry effort to
>standardize IT management best practices.
>
>Also this week, editor in chief Art Wittmann
>wraps
>up his coverage of the DEMO conference, where
>brave souls put on live demos of new IT products
>and services. Not surprisingly, Art saw plenty
>of new Web 2.0-style products, but also noted a
>dearth of serious enterprise-scale offerings,
>leading him to note that DEMO doesn't do
>complexity.
>
>Richard Karpinski
>rkarpinski@cmp.com
>www.networkcomputing.com
>
>Service
>Modeling Language Manages IT Assets
>By Andrew Conry-Murray
>The SML standard establishes a common vocabulary
>for disparate tools and has the backing of some
>big vendors.
>
>GO DEEP:
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>Delivery Modeling Strategies
>
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>Best Practices With ITIL
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>If one could find a theme in this morning's
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>DEMO
>Doesn't Do Complexity
>By Art Wittmann
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>of vendors--you guessed it--demoing their
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Rex Brooks
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Starbourne Communications Design
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