Redfish spec wiggles servers free from vendor lock-in

A coalition of equipment providers have joined to develop a new specification for controlling servers over the network, promising to eliminate data center vendor lock-in. The new spec, Redfish, supports out-of-band management, a vital operation for data centers because it provides a way to control machines even when the operating system is not installed or functional, or if the machine itself is not powered on. Redfish aims to replace a widely used out-of-band specification developed in 1998, the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). IPMI is no longer interoperable across different brands of servers, and is straining to meet the requirements of today's massive multiscale environments. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here