Links that I have found interesting for April 3rd:
- BMC updates CMDB software in down economy – Michael Coté of RedMonk, an IT research firm in Seattle, Wash., agreed. "Getting set up in a CMDB is a long, expensive process. The benefits kick in long term:better decision making power over your IT. In a climate where you read about layoffs every day, no one in the IT department thinks long term: their focus is on making short-term wins that justify their job and the overall IT budget," Coté said. "If the ax man comes around and asks for your status, and you tell them you're six months into an 18-month ITIL[IT Infrastructure Library]/CMDB/BSM [business services management] project, things start to look grim.
"It's better to have immediate, here-and-now cost savings or, even better, revenue generating projects to report on. Large-scale IT projects, like CMDBs, are like flossing: if you're smart enough to know that you should do them, you'll have more teeth in later years. But how many people floss each day? Not many," Coté said.