HP has taken the Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package to a new level. In fact, they’ve put it somewhere in the cloud layer.
The Hewlett Packard whizzes have injected a boost of supremacy into the DDMA package, creating 20:20 visibility and allowing users to track all their IT assets in the cloud.
The latest software content pack, DDMA 10, includes connectors for mapping resources based on the VMware vCloud standard as well as those stored on Amazon’s web service.
But what does it all mean? The DDMA software analyses a network and comes back with a description of all the resources running on that network. That includes all hardware, software, characteristics of anything connected to an IP address, and any resource dependencies.
All the above goes by the name of Dependency Mapping and details the way in which all the resources tracked on a network operate amongst themselves. This is useful for understanding how possible changes could affect system performance.
There are many more benefits that the updated DDMA has for businesses, but right off the bat, the new cloud capabilities will provide details regarding the resources on mainframe computers as well as generate specific service maps for Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute), Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) and Amazon Elastic Block.
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