Cendura announces new database package for Global 2000 companies

Cendura, a leader in application configuration management solutions for enterprises, has announced that its services-focused configuration management database (CMDB) is available to Global 2000 companies seeking to optimise the management of complex, custom-built and distributed applications.

Through its Cohesion Suite, users have a unified IT services repository for distributed applications and services configuration changes; a best practices database, consisting of over 4,000 vendor-recommended, industry best practices rules and a business services database, which tracks line of business information associated with the application infrastructure.

Cohesion automatically discovers the entire application and services environment and collects information about every configuration item, element, and parameter applicable to an application's security, performance and availability.

All relationships between a service's components are automatically identified and Cohesion's technology relationship maps and dependency visualisation create a tiered display of each host, the service components, and all of the relationships and dependencies.

"This is a truly unique and powerful solution. Cendura tracks the state multi-tiered application or service across multiple vendor components on heterogeneous platforms and lets you manage the entire service from a single, unified vantage point," said Rick McEachern, chief marketing officer of Cendura.

"Whether a company is just starting and wants to auto-populate a CMDB quickly or if they are implementing a federated CMDB, Cohesion provides the most comprehensive application and service information," he added.

The Cohesion Intelligent Rules Engine lets companies attach best practice rules to any configurable item or parameter and specify ranges, exact values, or expressions to set how an application is to be configured.

Application configuration changes are automatically detected and the policy engine can take corrective action including changing an application back to a previous setting.