CMDB adoption and maturity

For example, a recent poll at Gartner’s IOM conference found that 33% of respondents are currently implementing a CMDB -- another 19% plan to do so in the next six months -- while another 12 percent will do so within a year.

A separate study summarized in this article by EMA’s Dennis Drogseth found that "50% [of respondents] are in active [CMDB] planning and 50% are in deployment." Results may be dependent on a number of variables, but what’s remarkable is that both surveys show a marked contrast from another poll conducted a year ago by searchdatacenter.com which found that almost half of all of respondents had no plans for a CMDB.

While the numbers are interesting and certainly something to which we as a vendor pay close attention -- we find how this market is evolving most interesting of all. The nearby graphic indicates how we at Managed Objects have seen things shape up.