Microsoft eyes CMDB field
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft will try to move from the kids' table at the enterprise management feast to the grown-ups' table when it launches the private beta of its new help desk offering and announces its participation in the Configuration Management Database Federation Working Group at the TechEd: IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain.
Microsoft's new System Center help desk offeringcode-named Service Desk and to be unveiled Nov. 14includes a CMDB, signaling the software maker's entry into an emerging market dominated by the Big Four enterprise management providers. In addition, Microsoft, backed by CMDBF Working Group members IBM and BMC Software, hopes to have the group adopt its SML. SML provides a language for defining models of data center resources such as servers, networking gear and storage.