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 believe it when I see it." I was...

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. Eclipse is an open source community and COSMOS...

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 have a picture I like as well as this one my...

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 and promotion of interoperable management...

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. The group is creating a new interoperability specification...