CMDB overview
by William (@vambenepe on Twitter)This Network World article provides a pretty good overview of what the value of a well-used CMDB is. The statement that CMDBs are “enabled by open interfaces among management systems” is giving us (management system vendors) a bit more credit than we deserve at this point, but there is plenty of work in progress to make this be true (example 1, example 2, example 3).
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- CMDB in the Cloud: not your father’s CMDB
- CA joining “Federated CMDB” effort
- WSRF/WSN overview
- CMDB Federation white paper released
- Federated CMDB, one more step towards “Google maps for IT”
- Grid-enabled SOA article