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CMDB interoperability is one small step closer to reality with the release of a draft specification for CMDB federation. However, much work still needs to be done before IT can expect to enjoy "seamless integration" among heterogeneous CMDBs and data repositories.
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On Network Computing's Network and Systems Management Channel, our real-world technology editors cover the products and technologies that enable IT departments to manage and administer enterprise networks, systems and applications. NSM includes traditional functions, such as configuration management and network and traffic management and shaping. Also core to network management solutions -- including enterprise suites from vendors including BMC, Computer Associates, HP and IBM -- is the ability to analyze and diagnose network problems. But as IT has grown, NWC has also begun to cover NSM as a key business-enabling capability, with network and systems management systems encompassing new capabilities such as performance management and availability management to ensure that vital enterprise systems are ready and able to serve the business. Next-generation network and systems management solutions are moving up the value chain, being defined as vehicles for the intelligent integration of existing and planned management investments. NWC has covered this revolution extensively. Key to those new capabilities is the increased usage of CMDB, or configuration management database, to enable cross-domain analytics and integrated and consistent approaches to infrastructure and application discovery. Such more flexible NSM capabilities are even more important as new service oriented architectures (SOAs) emerge, forcing IT to manage more diverse, lightweight and disperse networks and applications then ever before. Check out our reviews, tests and analysis of management technologies and products, as well as the latest NSM news, white papers and featured sites on the topic of network and systems management.
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