In this post, I am going to use a very simple example to illustrate how SML can be used to capture desired configuration in an IT environment. Suppose that Alice - an IT administrator - wants to secure the deployment of payroll application in her datacenter...

This post is devoted to summarizing the two key changes (aka “what’s new”) in the second draft of the SML specification . Schema-less identification of references : Reference elements are now normatively identified by setting the sml:ref global attribute...

Lewis Curtis explains the benefits of using SML for modeling the structure and policies for data centers in his recent blog post . This excellent post has two errors: · It uses the term “ System Modeling Language” instead of “ Service Modeling Language...