CMDBf: IT’s Next Moonwalk

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…