Why CMDB accuracy keeps slipping
In most enterprises, the accuracy of inventory (CMDB) is critical for day-2-day operations and any migration or cost optimization efforts. To achieve accuracy, enterprises spend significant money and effort through discovery solutions and data accuracy initiatives. These efforts are good for one-time activity. However, the CMDB data gets stale quickly, and enterprises find it hard to keep it accurate. It gets further complicated with the proliferation of hybrid-cloud solutions, business acquisitions, and more teams running their apps on their cloud accounts or private cloud infrastructures.
Discovery and manual fixes are not enough
We believe fixing data through discovery & manual initiatives is not enough to keep CMDB accurate. Businesses need to simplify how IT assets & config items get provisioned, configured, or deployed and update the inventory (CMDB) in real time as changes are applied. Streamlining real-time updates to CMDB is complex to implement, especially when enterprises have multiple teams with siloed processes. Such as data-center, networking, compute/storage, UC infrastructure, security, identity/access, IaaS, PaaS, databases, integration stacks, application architectures, etc.
The blaZop approach: blueprint-based automation
The blaZop platform solves this problem through a unique & easy-to-use solution-driven blueprint-based automation experience.
It enables cloud & IT infrastructure teams to build deployable architectures and automate them through easy-to-use orchestration workflows. These orchestration workflows not only update the inventory in real-time but also integrate with any systems used by enterprise teams to manage their own IT/cloud services/resources. Ensuring the real-time update in inventory through provisioning workflows is the only way to keep CMDB inventory up to date.
If you are interested to know how blaZop platform can help?
Keeping the CMDB Accurate: Discovery Sweeps vs Provisioning Workflows
What to remember
- CMDB accuracy is critical for day-to-day operations and for any migration or cost-optimization effort.
- Discovery solutions and data-accuracy initiatives work as one-time activities, but CMDB data gets stale quickly afterward.
- Hybrid-cloud proliferation, business acquisitions, and teams running apps on their own cloud accounts make accuracy harder to sustain.
- The durable fix is updating the CMDB in real time as IT assets and config items are provisioned, configured, or deployed.
- blaZop does this through blueprint-based deployable architectures whose orchestration workflows update inventory in real time and integrate with the systems enterprise teams already use.
