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• Should Service Users Be Tracked as CIs in the CMDB?

  As CMDB experts go, I have a lot of experience, starting with implementations a decade ago when ITIL was almost unknown in North America. Still, a question posed to me at CA's recent customer-focused Development Buddy Summit sent me to the books ... Posted Apr 01 2008, 09:17 AM by Marvin Waschke with | with no comments Tags: ITIL, CMDB

• The CMDB and the Hungarian Bankers

  Last week I spoke with a Hungarian banker about the CMDBf specification. He was broad and burley, with a thick beard, a muscular neck, shoulders like a bear, and a gruff, heavily accented voice. "CMDBf?" he sneered with a toss of his head. "I'll... Posted Mar 03 2008, 08:46 AM by Marvin Waschke with | with no comments Tags: CMDB, CMDBf, FEDERATION

• Sample Implementations Ease Adoption: A Parallel between CMDBf and SNMP

  To quote Yogi Berra, "it's déjà vu all over again." I could not shake that feeling after reading an article entitled " Providing a CMDBf Query and Registration Service " that appeared in the Eclipse Wiki on the COSMOS project page... Posted Jan 15 2008, 09:52 AM by Marvin Waschke with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: CMDB, CMDBf

• Happy Holidays from down on the farm

  I thought you might enjoy a glimpse of our farm in the snow. Forty years ago, my father raised calves in this small barn that my grandfather built around 1900. It was the first barn built on the farm. He later erected a much larger hay barn, but I don't... Posted Dec 21 2007, 08:35 AM by Marvin Waschke with | with no comments Tags: ITIL, CMDB, CMDBf

• CMDB Dilemma: Authorized versus Observed Configuration

  I've been watching a battle between two opposing schools of thought in the CMDB world. One says that a CMDB represents the authorized configuration of the IT Service environment. Not the real configuration, not the way the system is working now, but... Posted Dec 18 2007, 01:25 PM by Marvin Waschke with | with 2 comment(s) Tags: ITIL, CMDB

• DMTF Accepts New CMDBf Specification

  If you've been following the progress of the CMDBf spec through my blog postings, you understand how proud and happy I am at the news that the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force), the "the industry organization leading the development, adoption... Posted Dec 14 2007, 10:50 AM by Marvin Waschke with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: CMDB, CMDBf

• The Unified Service Model and the CMDB

  In an article in CIO entitled " Why IT Needs a Blueprint: The Case for a Unified Service Model ," my colleague, Helge Scheil, wrote the following: "A Unified Service Model provides insight into the service definition--that is, the assets... Posted Dec 06 2007, 06:16 PM by Marvin Waschke with | with no comments Tags: CMDB

• Why CMDB?

  At CA World last month, I participated in a round table with a group of CA partners - including Accenture, BearingPoint, and Cap Gemini-where we discussed significant problems in IT. We talked about how we, as software vendors and service providers, could... Posted May 15 2007, 02:03 PM by Marvin Waschke with | with no comments Tags: CMDB

• Why the CMDBf Matters - It’s not a solution in search of a problem

  Why the CMDBf Matters A little more than a year ago, a group of IT management software vendors formed the CMDBf (Configuration Management Database Federation) to enable customers to federate and access information from their complex, IT infrastructures... Posted Apr 20 2007, 05:00 PM by Marvin Waschke with | with no comments Tags: CMDB, CMDBf