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The creation and adoption of "standards" help to bring about interoperability. Within the management area, the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) specification, currently being developed within OASIS, is an attempt to bring about interoperability for the management of distributed computing environments. It essentially defines a protocol for interoperability of management information and capabilities via web services. This article provides you with a few thoughts on how WSDM could be applied in practice, and why this particular initiative is so important in aligning IT and business. Before looking into the utilization of WSDM, let's first quickly examine why the standard is being created. After all, there are standards currently in place for management, such as SNMP, JMX and WMI, to name a few. However, while these standards are effective in managing specifi... (more)