WS-Management defines a way to use the existing set of core Web services specifications, what we call WS-*, the industry-supported Web services architecture, to provide a consistent method for remote management of devices, for traditional distributed systems and new service-oriented architecture-based applications.
WS-Management provides a universal language that all types of devices can use to share data about themselves so they can be maintained more easily.
Web Services are going to be everwhere now that AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Sun have Published a New Web Services Management Specification.