http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/204 IT management in a changing IT world Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:31:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/204#comment-42215 William Vambenepe Fri, 23 May 2008 20:30:28 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/?p=204#comment-42215 Yes the topic was raised. It is currently under consideration by the group. In fact, I have a pending action item to send a written proposal to the group that will include very lightweight use of RDF. Stay tuned. Yes the topic was raised. It is currently under consideration by the group. In fact, I have a pending action item to send a written proposal to the group that will include very lightweight use of RDF. Stay tuned.

]]> http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/204#comment-42134 Alex Honor Thu, 22 May 2008 01:03:23 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/?p=204#comment-42134 CMDB federation could very well be nothing more than the next kind of technology for the same kinds of integration we've seen from the big four vendors. I think it is a forward step to use a format that covers semantic representation though. I share your skepticism about how far these efforts will penetrate into the broader community and even the customers of the tools that use them. Will these end users know and be fluent in the set models offered by the W3C or DMTF? What if a user wants to pick and choose from one of these "standard" models, or what if they want/must extend or change the model to fit their world? As a potential end user, I would want a very small meta model that I can use to develop my own specialized ones. Given that predilection, it seems to me that the federation layer will need to do more than query, import and export but also ontological alignment. Was that topic raised? CMDB federation could very well be nothing more than the next kind of technology for the same kinds of integration we’ve seen from the big four vendors. I think it is a forward step to use a format that covers semantic representation though.
I share your skepticism about how far these efforts will penetrate into the broader community and even the customers of the tools that use them. Will these end users know and be fluent in the set models offered by the W3C or DMTF? What if a user wants to pick and choose from one of these “standard” models, or what if they want/must extend or change the model to fit their world?
As a potential end user, I would want a very small meta model that I can use to develop my own specialized ones. Given that predilection, it seems to me that the federation layer will need to do more than query, import and export but also ontological alignment. Was that topic raised?

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