CA is collaborating with other leading IT companies
including BMC Software, Fujitsu, HP and IBM to in order to enable
configuration management databases.
The company has joined a working group that aims to create an
interoperability specification that will ultimately enable
customers to federate and access information from their complex,
multi-vendor IT infrastructures.
The group says it will develop an open, industry-wide
specification for sharing information between Configuration
Management Databases (CMDBs) and other data repositories. This
specification will be submitted to an industry standards
organisation later this year. As a multi-vendor specification, it
will provide companies with greater choice and flexibility in
adding new hardware, applications and middleware.
“CMDBs have become one of central elements of enterprise IT
management, so a standards-based approach to this critical
functionality is necessary and valuable,” says Helge Scheil, chief
architect, business service optimisation business unit at CA.
“CA is pleased to collaborate with other industry leaders to
advance the state-of-the-art around the use of CMDBs and to lower
the cost of their adoption.”
An industry standard for federating and accessing IT information
will integrate communication between CMDBs, which hold all details
related to the components of an IT infrastructure. This includes
information about servers, storage devices, networks, middleware,
applications and data.
The working group believes that with a standard way for vendors
and tools to share and access configuration data, companies can
use their CMDBs to create a more complete and accurate view of IT
information spread out across multiple data sources and help them
better understand the impact of changes they make to the IT
environment.