Technology Leaders to Create Specification for Federating and Accessing IT Information.Tokyo and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , U.S.A., Apr 11, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. , Fujitsu Limited, HP and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today announced plans to create a new interoperability specification designed to enable customers to federate fed·er·ate v. fed·er·at·ed, fed·er·at·ing, fed·er·ates v.tr. To cause to join into a league, federal union, or similar association. v.intr. To become united into a federal union. and access information from their complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructures. The companies plan to submit a draft specification to an industry standards organization A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, later this year. Working together, the companies will develop an open, industry-wide specification for sharing information between Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) and other data repositories. As a multi-vendor specification, it will provide companies with greater choice and flexibility in terms of adding new hardware, applications, and middleware. Today, information about an IT infrastructure, such as which server runs a company's human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. application and who has access to the application, is scattered across the organization in different formats, making it difficult to access and share. Yet doing so is often critical, especially for organizations grappling with compliance and governance issues. An industry standard for federating and accessing IT information will integrate communication between CMDBs, which hold details related to the components of an IT infrastructure, including information about servers, storage devices, networks, middleware, applications and data. An accurate CMDB CMDB Configuration Management Data Base CMDB Composite Modified Double Base (Propellant) CMDB Control and Monitor Display Builder CMDB Call Management Database can help an IT staff understand the relationships and dependencies among these various components. However, with no standard way for different vendors' CMDBs and other tools to share data, IT information must be collected manually - a time-consuming and costly process. With a standard way for vendors and tools to share and access configuration data, organizations can use their CMDBs to create a more complete and accurate view of IT information spread out across multiple data sources. This makes it easier to keep track of changes to an IT environment, such as when the last time an application was updated, or if there have been changes made to critical configuration information. It also helps organizations better understand the impact of changes they make to the IT environment. A financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. company, for example, could use its federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. CMDBs to understand how deploying a new online banking program might impact other parts of the business that share the same resources - even in a multi-vendor environment. The specification is intended to support the procedures that organizations use to manage their IT operations, such as those described by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). ), a customizable set of best practices. ---- Quotes "As the CMDB continues to move toward the mainstream, the time is ripe to discuss standardizing across industries and organizations. As the value of a true, federated, non-proprietary CMDB continues to be tested and proven, enterprises will expect increasingly more efficient implementation, and will continue to look to industry-leading organizations to work together to meet their interoperability needs." -- Tom Bishop, Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software "Standardization of the CMDB is of critical importance to improve the efficiency of IT processes and to achieve the integration of tools and IT processes in multi-vendor environments. We believe that open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced in the area of IT management will benefit both the customer and the industry, and we welcome the opportunity to work with other industry leaders to accelerate CMDB standardization. We plan to provide Fujitsu Systemwalker IT management products incorporating the new CMDB standard." -- Yasushi Ishida, Vice President, Software Strategy and Architecture, and Executive Architect, Software Group, Fujitsu Limited "Every enterprise needs to manage its IT services delivery and CMDB is a critical component of the process. By working with our partners in developing industry standards for CMDB, HP is helping customers face the challenges of maintaining compliance, aligning with the business and automating IT processes." -- Mark Potts, Chief Technologist, OpenView Business Unit, HP "CMDBs are coming of age, yet interoperability isn't where it should be. That's why it's important that these companies, industry leaders in IT service management, are coming together to create an open model that will make it easier for organizations to view, track and change information that is essential for efficient and compliant management of their entire infrastructure." -- Alan Ganek, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Tivoli Software Tivoli Software is the systems management brand of the IBM Software Group. IBM purchased Austin-based Tivoli Systems, Inc. in 1996[1] and allowed it to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary for a few years before forming the Software Group. and Vice President of Autonomic Computing Refers to computer systems and networks that configure themselves to changing conditions and are self healing in the event of failure. "Autonomic" means "automatic responses" to unpredictable events. , IBM "itSMF sees this initiative as great news for organizations that are planning to implement ITIL best practices and supports this group of key IT leaders who are working together to forge standards in this area. Such standards will go a long way towards making CMDBs and other ITIL related software tools more effective in helping customers better understand and manage their complex IT environments and should be of significant benefit to all involved parties." -- Brian Jennings, Chairman, itSMF International About Fujitsu Limited Fujitsu Limited (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 6702, ADR ADR - Astra Digital Radio : FJTSY) is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US $44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com. Source: Fujitsu Limited Contact: BMC Tamara Doney Tel: +1-916-645-6233 Mobile: +1-916-223-1668 E-mail: tamara_doney@bmc.com Fujitsu Limited Public and Investor Relations Inquiries: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/contacts/ HP Stacey Hoskin Tel: +1-408-447-4673 Mobile: +1-408-768-8772 E-mail: stacey.hoskin@hp.com IBM Jeff Tieszen Tel: +1-512-286-2279 Mobile: +1-512-585-8728 E-mail: jtieszen@us.ibm.com Copyright [c] 2006 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network K.K. |
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