IBM, on May 16th, announced its foray in Change and configuration management database (CCMDB) landscape. They detailed their plans on three new Tivoli systems management products, and also the Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB), which federates IT information across multiple databases -- allowing IT administrators to track a single application running on a dozen servers. The new IBM Tivoli Process Managers includes modules related to management of following:

• Change and Release


• Availability


• Information Lifecycle

Competition is tough as some of the big companies like Hewlett-Packard Co., Computer Associates International Inc. said that they also have federated databases for consolidating IT information, basically relating to change and configuration.

IBM also announced several business partners along with whom it would be working to come up with what they call as "Discovery Library". Those business partners are following:

Cendura Corp.
Collation Inc.
NLayers Inc.
Relicore Inc.
Peregrine Systems Inc.
HyPerformix Inc.

Only time would tell who would be winner in Change and configuration management landscape. For detailed information on IBM announcements, visit the following link: IBM Adds New Choice on Configuration DBs