DMTF

The Cloud Auditing Data Federation Working Group (CADF) sets out to resolve major problems with the inconsistency, incompatibility, and even inability of existing cloud and service audit interfaces, technologies, and tools. The group focuses on standardizing audit events across all cloud and service providers, and on making audit events comprehensible, consistent, shareable, and merge-able.
 
The CADF Working Group develops the DMTF’s CADF standard. More than a format, the CADF standard defines a full event model anyone can use to fill in the essential data needed to certify, self-manage and self-audit application security in cloud environments.
 
CADF is part of the DMTF’s Cloud Management Initiative, which is focused on developing interoperable cloud infrastructure management standards and promoting the adoption of those standards in the industry.

The rapid adoption of virtual infrastructure has highlighted the need for a standard, portable metadata format for the distribution of virtual systems onto and between virtualization platforms. The DMTF’s Open Virtualization Format (OVF) Working Group produces the OVF standard, which provides the industry with a standard packaging format for software solutions based on virtual systems. OVF has been adopted and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO 17203.
 
In the modern cloud computing era, OVF provides a platform independent, efficient, open and extensible packaging and distribution format that facilitates the mobility of virtual machines and gives customers platform independence. This group’s work is also utilized in the DMTF’s Cloud Management Initiative.

The information in this specification, combined with the SM CLP-to-CIM Common Mapping Specification 1.0, is intended to be sufficient to implement SM CLP commands relevant to the classes, properties, and methods described in the Device Tray Profile using CIM operations.

The information in this specification, combined with the SM CLP-to-CIM Common Mapping Specification 1.0, is intended to be sufficient to implement SM CLP commands relevant to the classes, properties, and methods described in the Sensors Profile using CIM operations.

This specification contains the requirements for an implementation of the SM CLP to provide access to, and implement the behaviors of, the Modular Systems Profile.

This specification contains the requirements for an implementation of the SM CLP to provide access to, and implement the behaviors of, the SM CLP Admin Domain Profile.

This specification contains the requirements for an implementation of the SM CLP to provide access to, and implement the behaviors of, the SMASH Collections Profile.

This specification contains the requirements for an implementation of the SM CLP to provide access to, and implement the behaviors of, the CLP Service Profile.

The DMTF’s Cloud Management Working Group models the management of cloud services and the operations and attributes of the cloud service lifecycle through its work on the Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI).
 
The CIMI specification describes the model and protocol for management interactions between a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider and the consumers of an IaaS service. The basic resources of IaaS (machines, storage, and networks) are modeled to provide consumer management access to an implementation of IaaS and facilitate portability between cloud implementations that support the specification.

 
By developing a set of prescriptive specifications and sample implementations that deliver architectural semantics and implementation details, the Cloud Management Working Group helps achieve interoperable management of clouds between service requestors/developers and providers. This work is also utilized in the DMTF’s Cloud Management Initiative.