Hi,

Links posted here will provide extra Information on the technologies/protocols used in ProSphere.

Following are referenced in various ProSphere Technical Documentation

• Abode Flex: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html

• ATOM: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
• ATOM Feed Paging: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5005
• Bigdata: http://www.systap.com/bigdata.htm
• CIM/XML: http://www.wbemsolutions.com/tutorials/CIM/
• Collectl: http://collectl.sourceforge.net/
• Complex Event Processing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_Event_Processing
• CSV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
• DMTF: http://www.dmtf.org/
• Event-Drive Architecture: http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventNarrative.html
• FOAF: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
• Google gdata: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/
• Greenplum: http://www.greenplum.com/
• JSON: http://www.json.org/
• Linked Data: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
• Notation3 (N3): http://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/n3/
• OData: http://www.odata.org/
• OWL: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/ 
• RDF: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
• Resourc Oriented Architecture: http://www.infoq.com/articles/roa-rest-of-rest
• REST: http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
• Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
• SSH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell
• SMI-S: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/smi
• SNMP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol
• SOA: http://www.soaglossary.com/service_oriented_architecture.php
• Turtle: http://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/turtle/
• URIs/URLs: http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/
• Vmware Glossary: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/master_glossary.pdf
• VMware Open Virtualization Format (OVF): http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/ovf.html
• VMware vCenter Update Manager: http://www.vmware.com/products/update-manager/overview.html
• VMware vSphere: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html
• WinRM: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384426(v=vs.85).aspx
• WMI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394582(v=vs.85).aspx
• WS-Management: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman
• XML Namespaces: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/

Regards

Conor