Cloud computing establishes the first database standard CMDBf to make the cloud predictable

A few days ago, a number of enterprises in the Distributed Management Task Group (DMTF) of non-profit organizations jointly announced the launch of a new cloud computing open standard named CMDB Alliance standard, also known as CMDBf standard. CMDB (ConfigurationManagementDatabase) is a basic data platform in the it o & M system.

A few days ago, a number of enterprises in the Distributed Management Task Group (DMTF) of non-profit organizations jointly announced the launch of a new cloud computing open standard named CMDB Alliance standard, also known as CMDBf standard. CMDB (Configuration Management Database) is a basic data platform in the it o & M system, allowing IT organizations to calculate

A few days ago, a number of enterprises in the Distributed Management Task Group (DMTF) of non-profit organizations jointly announced the launch of a new cloud computing open standard named CMDB Alliance standard, also known as CMDBf standard.

CMDB (Configuration Management Database) is a basic data platform in the it o & M system, IT allows IT organizations to fully visualize the attributes, relationships, and dependencies of various components in their enterprise computing environments. The new CMDB Alliance standard provides a new way to obtain IT information from CMDB databases distributed across multiple data warehouses, this allows you to create a more complete and accurate view of IT information across multiple data sources.

The leading CA company in CMDB applications welcomed the new cloud standard. Brian Bell, senior vice president of CA Service Management, said in a statement: "Every day we receive requests from customers asking us to help them build CMDB databases, however, these asset data and configuration data come from both CA and non-CA systems. Without broad alliance standards, configuration management will be very complex, and enterprises have to limit the scope of the CMDB project, which also limits the potential value of the database ."

"The service model stored in CMDB can reach all tangible and intangible projects in the IT underlying architecture, it also supports possible services and connections between them."

For enterprises that use ITIL as the framework to manage IT, CMDBf standards can help track the data of Service Asset & Configuration Management (SACM. "How do you create a service model when some or all of the basic component information of an enterprise is stored in a completely different data source? How can we keep the current structure unchanged after the model is created? Unless these problems are solved, the SACM application will be tricky. CMDBf focuses on providing you with standard-based data access to better support SACM, "Waschke said.

Other enterprises are also trying to make CMDB better. Last week, it o & M vendor BMC released its Business Service Management platform (Business Service Management platform) product, which further emphasizes the importance of CMDB databases.

CMDB can help predict cloud usage, says Meghan Stebler, managing director of BMC Software Strategy and marketing. "understanding what you have and how you use it is the first step. Using CMDB to manage assets and storage Information (even federated data) allows you to perform initial baseline analysis on the current situation ."

In addition, last week, the network service provider Rackspace announced the launch of a standard-based open-source API for its Rackspace Cloud service. As 51CTO.com has previously reported, it seems that this Rackspace's Cloud Servers API has become a leader in the future development direction. Rackspace said that the API can be used to provide data for Virtual Machine instances and associate files with virtual machine instances to create servers, so as to ensure that customers' virtual machines are not clustered in one physical host, create a shared IP group to ensure high availability.

"ECs can access local raid 10 disk storage, just as you want a physical server to do," said Emil Sayegh, general manager of Rackspace Cloud, "Rackspace's Cloud service is currently the only multi-choice service suite. You can choose Cloud or host leasing, or our unique hybrid hosting service."