Byte and Switch: Where is Tivoli vis-à-vis support for CIM? When will it be ubiquitous and useful in the way, say, SNMP [Simple Network Management Protocol] is? [See Storage Standards Solidify.]
Sanders: CIM support is pretty robust for the first instantiation. Hopefully, CIM will surpass how quickly SNMP has evolved over time. But I would expect you should be able to at least address a piece of hardware and tell it what you want it to do through the standard. The only limit to the standard is how fast we move forward on it. I don't see any technical limitations to this.
Byte and Switch: When do you think will it happen, then?
Sanders: Since I come from a software background, I bet my view is that it will happen faster than some of my peers [think it will]. I would like to see this happen very quickly. It's pulling the industry back instead of forward.
Byte and Switch: IBM's storage hardware group has its own virtualization software projects the SAN Volume Controller and StorageTank. Shouldn't those be in the Tivoli group with the rest of the storage management software? [See IBM Plays With Self (Virtually) and IBM Virtually in the Game.]
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