Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
I’m waiting for the time when it becomes a “groan” to talk about cloud computing, but that time clearly isn’t yet. As of last December, 48 percent of our surveyed respondents from our February report, Optimizing Cloud for Service Delivery, viewed cloud as essential to their business (among cloud adopters that is) versus 33 percent…
The CMDB tidal wave may seemed to have peaked about two or three years ago and left a trail of ruin and devastation in its wake. However, like many technology trends, the CMDB built up a lot of hype, then confusion, then disillusion. Missed in all of this, however, is the fundamental fact that a…
In August’s column I wrote about next-generation asset management (NGAM), EMA’s term for a service-centric model for asset management. In this model service management, configuration management, compliance, change management and capacity planning are brought together from a dollars-and-cents perspective. NGAM fits in fairly well with ITIL v3’s approach to lifecycle asset management, where asset management…
Early in July, the Distributed Management Taskforce (DMTF) gave its approval for the CMDBf specification for supporting federated CMDB systems—or as ITIL v3 would have it, a federated configuration management system (CMS). In this vision, multiple reconciled sources including management data repositories, discovery systems, etc. can provide a cohesive fabric to support more effective service…
Fear can come in many forms. Sometimes it comes from a loud noise, or else from a scary image – I just heard about a pharmaceutical company trying to get college students to respond to the picture of a spider with fear by giving them electric shocks (they wanted to test medication that could help…
If the economy isn’t yet in the midst of a nuclear winter, it’s at least in a nuclear autumn. The financial meltdown has already changed the face of the financial industry, and some analysts say we’ve only seen the beginning. And it’s likely that the landscape of other industries will soon be re-shaped as well….
A great deal has changed in just the two to three years since the term CMDB became a part of IT’s common vernacular. And then a great deal hasn’t. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research from June of this year shows that initiatives are further along, strategies are evolving, however most deployments still suffer from politics,…