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.