A growing roster of vendors offers CMDB packages, including BladeLogic, Intuity, Managed Objects, and OpsWare, to name just a few, and the big enterprise IT management firms are all over the issue, including BMC, CA, HP, and IBM.
Notably, CMDB was the technology behind HP's purchase of Mercury Interactive in November for $4.5 billion. (See HP Finalizes Mercury Buy.) CMDB was also the impetus behind CA's purchase of Cendura earlier this year, which subsequently led to a new CA CMDB release in September. (See CA Supports ITIL.)
Sadly, though, finding storage in all this is difficult.
While CA offers an integration capability for its CMDB, specifics are hard to nail down. And the fine print on IBM's web site about its Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database indicates support only for IBM's TotalStorage wares. There's nothing about storage in BMC's Atrium literature. Ditto HP's OpenView collateral.
BladeLogic doesn't support storage, and Vaishnavi admits it's not in the company's cards. "It's not cost-prohibitive to throw more storage capacity out there," he says. Because storage is sometimes perceived as a commodity, there's less pressure on IT to make it part of the CMDB equation.
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