By
patrick
QUirk
THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL | 9
www.datacenterjournal.com
The
Intelligent
Platform
Management
Interface
(IPMI),
the
de-facto
standard
for
server
management,
was
originally
released
in
1998.
At
that
time,
there
was
no
standard
specification
for
server
management
and
IPMI
represented
a
huge
leap
forward
for
the
industry.