What products will SDM be supported in?
SDM will be supported in a range of products from Microsoft and third parties. 1) Design and development tools that support SDM enable IT professionals to encode their IT policies and standards in software so that they can provide explicit requirements to application development teams. Application developers can also use SDM to encode operational requirements within applications and validate those requirements at design time, ensuring that the policies and standards supplied by the IT are met. 2) New and existing server applications that support SDM can be deployed and configured automatically. 3) Operating systems that support SDM can automate the deployment of an application and all of its underlying hardware and software resources-and keep track of those resources by application. 4) Hardware that supports SDM can be provisioned more dynamically and managed as a component of a larger distributed system within an IT infrastructure. 5) Management products and solutions that support SDM
