Inchoate Curmudgeon

The OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) explores the formal concept of transforming and instantiating models. “In the MDA, models are first-class artifacts, integrated into the development process through the chain of transformations from Platform Independent Model (PIM) through Platform Specific Model (PSM) to coded application.” The “coded application” terminology is bit unfortunate, since the MDA concepts, […]

An intriguing aspect of ITIL change expected in a virtualization project is CMDB. I missed this on my recent post on ITIL and virtualization. It’s a funny slip, in the sense I’ve been pondering this subject quite a bit lately. Virtualization concepts are increasingly realized in all the classic components of infrastructure: compute, storage, and networking. […]