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Quotable Quotes
“Allot is pleased to join the new
Quality of Service Task Force. As a vendor providing Policy-based
QoS and SLA management solutions, we see the work of the task
force research, definitions and standardization research as
extremely important to the evolution of this important area
of networking.”
- Eric Rosser, President of Allot
Communication.
" ...these flow-based management
tools are the next step in managing complex and robust systems.
However, to really succeed, we need standards. The industry
needs to converge on one definition of flow statistics from
routers (currently there are three: Cisco, Extreme and Juniper).
Then we need to support the Open Group's QOS Task Force initiative
on application quality and resource management standards."
- From "Flow-oriented management-the
next level of management", 31 May 2003
"Aurema has devoted over 10
years of research into Active Resource Management Technologies
in an effort to help users achieve quality of service objectives.
The charter membership in the Quality of Service Task Force
is our commitment to support a collaborative effort to further
improve the interoperability of existing and future QoS solutions."
- Kristoph Cichocki-Romanov,
Global Product Manager, Aurema
"As a founding member of WBEM, member of The Open Group
and current Director of the DMTF Board, BMC Software is happy
to contribute to the progress of interoperability."
"The industry as a whole will reap
the rewards in productivity and cost savings from open source
enterprise management.
- Mark Sterin, director, Advanced
Technologies Research, BMC Software.
"As we developed our Linux systems
management product, Caldera Volution, Caldera International
recognized the need for an open management standard like the
DMTF WBEM standard," said Darren Davis, vice president
of technology strategy for Caldera's Management Software Business.
"Caldera is a founder of the WBEMsource initiative and
is supporting the project by contributing it's own OpenWBEM
source to the Open Source community (www.openwbem.org)."
"The formation of the WBEMsource
initiative is a very significant step in the development of
a robust market for WBEM technologies. We believe the WBEM
standards will enable a new generation of network-integrated
management tools, and are implementing WBEM interfaces in
our CiscoWorks2000 product family."
- Jim Turner, Director of Marketing,
Enterprise Management Business Unit, Cisco Systems.
“Continuing its history of supporting
industry standards and The Open Group, Compaq is pleased to
be a founding member of the Quality of Service Task Force.”
- Kent Ferson, Vice President
of the UNIX Systems Business Unit, Compaq Computer Corporation.
"CA has consistently demonstrated
a real commitment to both fostering standards that facilitate
the management of heterogeneous computing environments and
implementing those standards in our own management solutions.
This commitment is evidenced by the fact that our Unicenter
solutions support WBEM standards and that we are actively
participating in the WBEMsource initiative to further develop
those standards to leverage the strengths of open source development."
- John Pincomb, Vice President,
Marketing, Computer Associates.
"The WBEMsource initiative brings
additional opportunities to promote WBEM implementations and
enhance the future interoperability of management technology.
The DMTF is committed to working with the industry to promote
the collaboration of projects that enable distributed management."
- Winston Bumpus, President,
DMTF
"Evidian welcomes the WBEMsource
initiative and looks forward to contributing to the development
efforts of this new group. We already have demonstrated interoperability
between WBEM and OpenMaster, our e-infrastructure management
product, and are actively involved in the open source movement,
as demonstrated by the popularity of the JOnAS application
server, our implementation of EJB specifications. We have
long supported opportunities such as these to share expertise
within the broad software community to help define industry
standards that benefit us all."
- Philippe Pradat, Evidian's
VP of product engineering and marketing
"We have been seeking a model for
defining the ideal end user experience. The Business Scenario
Methodology will prove to be a useful part of that model.
This methodology will allow us to clearly characterize an
ideal user experience from an IT perspective and help us translate
our vision into reality."
- Chris Apple, Director, Identity
Management Services, GlaxoSmithKline
"End-to-end Quality of Service to
ensure optimal end-user online experiences is a necessity
to be successful in e-business today. HP's focus on the total
customer experience, backed by Openview software products
and services, is completely aligned with the Open Group's
QoS taskforce and the collaborative benefits it will bring
to both e-businesses and end users."
- Patty Azzarello, Vice President
and General Manager, HP Openview
"The WBEMsource initiative is another
example of HP's commistandards. An always-on internet infrastructure
will benefit from the WBEMsource initiative by addressing
the growing demands for tightly integrated management applications.
HP is excited to implement the WBEM standard to bring to our
customers not only improved interoperability and portability
of management applications in a heterogeneous IT environment,
but also the cost benefit through significantly increased
operational efficiency."
- Nick van der Zweep,
Director of Marketing, Always-On Infrastructure Solutions
Division, Hewlett-Packard
"IBM has been very enthusiastic
about any initiatives that increase the viability of open
platforms. This approach to standards for management technologies
will help drive innovation to integrate data and services
throughout the enterprise."
- Dr. Daniel Frye, Director,
IBM Linux Technology Center
"MEGAXESS provides solutions that
support end users with a faster, reliable information transport
with a differentiated services or QoS assurance for multi-service
applications. It is important for MEGAXESS to define solutions
that encompass these ingredients in an integrated fashion,
as part of end-to-end Quality of Service assurance to applications."
- Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Ph.D.,
Chairman & CEO of MEGAXESS
“QoS capability is important for
mission-critical information systems. The Open Group
QoS Task Force will provide the needed synergy to integrate
the considerable QoS technology that has already been developed.
It provides a useful forum for technology providers and users
to define workable QoS solutions.”
- Paul Denning, Lead Systems
Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
“NeTraverse is proud to be a charter
member of the Quality of Service Task Force
in The Open Group. This initiative is critical to the strategic
objectives of NeTraverse in pursuing leadership in the delivery
and market development of Virtual Desktop Computing. Enterprises
must rely on a standard mature process in the industry to
enable the infrastructure necessary for this new era of enterprise
computing.”
- Mark Warring, Chief Architect,
NeTraverse
"NetReality was founded with one
purpose: assuring quality of service and guaranteed delivery
times for business-critical applications traversing the network,"
says Kit Waugh, VP of Marketing and Business Development of
NetReality, premier provider of application switching technology.
"We call this Network Service Assurance. Through The
Open Group, by working together to ensure interoperability,
the customer is assured that their growing QoS needs will
be met with the best technological solutions: enterprise-class
products and carrier-delivered services."
“Quality of Service is the major
concern for the commercial Internet in the years to come,
especially in combination with Mobility. Both are core practice
areas of Predictive Systems AG - Deutschland. We are looking
forward to participating in the productive and synergetic
environment of The Open Group.”
- Matthias Kraner, Predictive
Systems
"Quarry Technologies' mission is
to give service providers the platform and essential tools
they need to deliver high-quality, secure and predictable
IP services over the Internet or any shared IP network, while
enabling them to manage their SLAs. The Open Group's
QoS taskforce will be an excellent forum to address key issues
in this exciting arena."
- Richard Forberg, Vice President
of Product Management for Quarry Technologies
"Quality of Service (QoS) has become
a must have technology to run today’s operations and
e-Business applications. Companies who are not utilizing QoS
today are giving away a competitive advantage. This is why
Sitara Networks is proud to be a Founding Member of The Open
Group's QoS task force."
- Mark Strangio, Vice
President of Business Development at Sitara Networks
“Increasingly, both commercial
and military systems are going to depend on multiple, shared,
communications and distributed computing services to support
the end to end Quality of Service (QoS) required by their
mission critical applications. To provide the end-to-end performance
and dependability that those applications require, evolving
QoS architectures will have to develop effective means for
specifying, monitoring and controlling every critical link
in those service chains."
- Dr. Arthur S. Robinson, President,
System/Technology Development Corporation (S/TDC)
"As the Internet and e-commerce
become more important, quality of service and innovative features
will be the distinguishing factors in customer interest and
loyalty. Teknowledge's work in leading edge QoS technologies
give it the experience base needed to provide forward looking
solutions to the Open Group's QoS Task Force and our customers."
- Lou Coker, Project
Leader, Teknowledge
"If The Open Group did not already exist it would have
to be created"
"The Open Group is pleased to host
the WBEMsource initiative. We are committed to using WBEM
and CIM with our open source Pegasus project (www.opengroup.org/pegasus).
The Open Group's core skill - building certification programs
- will maximise interoperability among all implementations,
a major contribution to achieving widespread acceptance of
the WBEM standards. By promoting an open source approach,
we believe that the time to deployment will be dramatically
reduced and the risks associated with integrating new technology
lowered."
- Allen Brown, President
& CEO, The Open Group
"The SNIA is committed to the development
and promotion of the Common Information Model (CIM) as the
future of enterprise management. The WBEMsource initiative
represents a key factor leading to the adoption of CIM. The
SNIA CIMOM has been available since 1999 for download and
use under an Open Source license. Participating in the WBEMsource
initiative is part of the SNIA mission to increase management
capability, interoperability, and adoption of storage networks."
- Larry Krantz, Chairman of the
SNIA Board of Directors
"A major issue facing information
technology staff is the increasing cost of managing across
a network--consisting of hardware, software, and storage from
multiple vendors. The WBEMsource initiative will provide a
basis for sharing management information between managed elements,
between different vendors, and across the network. In order
to facilitate sharing management information and help our
customers drive down the cost of managing the network, Sun
has developed Solaris WBEM Services software as a core technology
of the Solaris 8 Operating Environment and will make a Java
source implementation available, to the open source community,
for widespread industry adoption."
- Andy Ingram, vice president
of marketing for Solaris Products, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"The W3C proposal is backed by some
of the largest technology makers in the industry. The working
group that developed the proposal includes a who's who of
technology: Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Apple, AT&T,
IBM, ILOG, Nortel Networks, The Open Group, Reuters and Sun
Microsystems…"
- 2 October 2001
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