IT Systems Management

Reality check on Cloud portability

SD Times recently published an interesting article about “cloud interoperability”. It has some well-informed opinions. But, like all Cloud-related...

0 replies - 795 views - 04/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Federationing

I am glad to see that, as it inches towards standardization in the DMTF, the CMDBf specification is getting more visibility. Forrester’s Glenn O’Donnell...

0 replies - 375 views - 04/08/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud computing: would you like flexibility with your simplicity?

The recent announcement of the Sun Cloud, and more specifically its API is a good occasion to think about how much simplicity we really want in our datacenter...

0 replies - 847 views - 03/23/09 by vambenepe in News

Exploring IT management in a changing IT world

The tagline for this blog is “IT management in a changing IT world”. Of course nobody but their authors care about blog taglines. Still, in the unlikely...

0 replies - 1007 views - 03/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Managing the stack from top to bottom, including virtualization

The press release for the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 came out yesterday, but that’s not all: the Oracle VM Management Pack for...

0 replies - 671 views - 03/06/09 by vambenepe in News

CMDBf is a lot more and a lot less than you think

The DMTF CMDBf working group has recently published an updated draft of its specification. The final version should follow soon and I don’t expect major...

0 replies - 696 views - 03/03/09 by vambenepe in News

A new SPIN on enriching a model with domain knowledge (constraints and inferences)

Back when I was at HP and we got involved with what turned into SML (now a W3C candidate recommendation), we tried to make a case for the specification to be...

1 replies - 1005 views - 01/13/09 by vambenepe in News

The art of reconciling items in your IT management model

Whether you call it a CMDB or some other name, any repository of IT model elements has the problem of establishing whether two entities are the same or not....

0 replies - 1154 views - 01/06/09 by vambenepe in News