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...

In December, I blogged happily that " DMTF Accepts New CMDBf Specification ." Since then, the CMDB Federation Work Group of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has met four times and the CMDBf consortium, which wrote the spec before turning it over to the DMTF, is winding down. We...

Followers of my blog know that I am sucker for a good standard. I am a shameless idealist. My personal mission is to make IT organizations hum (picture the current VISA commercials) and to ensure that when the inevitable hiccups do occur, the cause is not incompatible solutions from different vendors...

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...

I've been involved with the development of two standards recently: the CMDBf standard and Service Modeling Language (SML). Each has followed a similar path, starting as a brainchild of an industry consortium and then moving on to a public standards body. While establishing a standard is an exciting...

The CMDBf team did it. It’s done. The CMDB Federation Working Group ( http://cmdbf.org/ ) has published CMDBf Federation Public Interim Draft Version 0.95 of a specification for federating CMDBs. The technical committee has been meeting two-to-three times a week for over a year now. I am sure that some...

Last week, the CMDBf gathered in Redmond and successfully ran its first interoperability tests. The atmosphere was collegial with everyone in the room on a first name basis. The sign Microsoft facilities had placed on the door read “CMDB Federation of the Planets.” Interesting place, Redmond. Next door...

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...