The Crossroads - Podcast series from CM Crossroads
Join the CM Crossroads Editors in lively discussions with industry thought leaders, analysts and software providers about the latest trends and news for the Configuration Management community.
In part II, join Bob Aiello and Marvin Waschke for a discussion on how to implement a configuration management database (CMDB) using virtualization and cloud computing. Marv explains that maintaining the mappings between the virtual configuration and the physical configuration is one of the key features to implementing the CMDB in the Cloud. They also discuss how to leverage federated CMDBs to support specialized devices such as routers and networks devices. Marv also explains how open industry standards are making this effort much easier to bring in information from distributed sources and help achieve success with implementing CMDBs!
Bob Aiello talks with Marvin Waschke, Senior Advisor for Product Management at CA, Inc., about the newly approved Industry wide specification for sharing information between CMDBs and other data management repositories. CMDB best practices are discussed along with tips on how to integrate a CMDB with a Configuration Management System (CMS). This interview also covers Marv's advice on how to leverage a Change Advisory Board (CAB) to keep environment configuration information up to date and accurate.
Executives often neglect requirements or mistakenly assume a requirement process is in place, yet requirements have a major impact on project and ultimately business success. David Hauck and Patrick Egan discuss the reason for that disconnect. David goes on to talk about about how the typical requirements definition and management process take place and some of the challenges associated with it. Finally we wrap up discussing the implications of not having a proper requirements definition and management process in place.
Thoughtworks labs' Jez Humble joins Bob Aiello for a two part program announcing the new commercial continuous integration (CI) server called Cruise. This product sets a new pace with its supporting Agile practices including CI. It's ease of use, support and extensibility, from the makers of the very successful open source continuous integration server, promise to make this very popular Agile CM best practice even more practical for large scale Agile adoption!
In Part 1, we were introduced to Cruise and found out how it can help developers. Tune into Part 2 to find out what technologies are supported by Cruise!
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