CA acquired Cendura in September
Last month, CA acquired Cendura to complement its CMDB offering. This comes after a string of consolidations
in the discovery space (see my previous post about Applications and Asset discovery landscape).
It will be interesting to watch how CA integrates Cendura's Cohesion with its own Sonar technology :
Sonar watches and analyzes traffic on the network, and understands more than 1,700 protocols and information sources. It builds accurate maps and keeps those maps updated as resource allocations change.
Also, Cohesion is coming with an impressive set of rules that could be applied to ensure the compliance of configurations
with best practices. Integrating these rules on top of a CMDB could provide an interesting way of performing
configuration management (configuration audit) or even problem management (root cause analysis).
CA is expecting to integrate Cendura's technology within 120 days. Lets see.
New job
After a long break of more than a month, it is time to contribute an entry to this blog.
This break coincide also with a change of employer. After 11 years with Sun, working
on projects like Solstice Bandwidth Allocator, Solaris Bandwidth Manager, and the
IPQOS feature of Solaris 10 (well, 9 8/03 more exactly), and more recently on N1, the
change is really welcomed.
I'm joining BMC Software to look after the architecture and technical strategy of
the Datacenter Management Solutions. This sounds really exiting as BMC has
already all the components required to manage the full lifecycle of datacenter
infrastructure, applications and services. Bringing together the
Remedy Service Management , BMC Atrium CMDB , and Marimba product
lines into consistent solutions has the potential to solve many of the challenges
I have described in this previous post.
As before, I'll try to be as much as possible impartial, and will speak only for
me, and not BMC, remember :
The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of my employer,
not necessarily mine, and probably not necessary altogether.
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