Mary-Louise Hoffman
A consortium comprising of Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel and Emerson‘s network power business has developed a technical industry standard to help administrators manage, secure and modernize data center systems.
Redfish network interface is designed to make different server platforms interoperable and extract insights from big data to improve system monitoring, the companies said Thursday.
The alliance created the specification with the goal of expanding data access and, reducing operational costs and protecting remote data centers.
According to the companies, Redfish will be subject to review and approval by the Scalable Platform Management Forum, which is in charge of publishing open industry standard specifications.
Redfish will be demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum that is scheduled to take place in San Francisco between Sept. 9 and 11.
