Distributed Management Task Force

Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, formerly "Desktop Management Task Force") is an industry consortium[?] that develops, supports, and maintains standards for systems management of PC systems and products, to reduce total cost of ownership[?]. These include the Desktop Management Interface[?] (DMI), the most-widely used management standard today.

The DMTF is participating in an industry effort to create a standard for management over the Internet. They are defining an object-oriented common information model[?] (CIM[?]).

External Links

http://www.dmtf.org/

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