The Distributed Management Task Force, the IT industry organization leading the development of interoperable systems management standards, accepted a draft specification that will allow the sharing of information between Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) from multiple vendors. The new spec, which was submitted by a working group of multiple CMDB vendors, aims to enable companies to federate and access information from complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructures.

In this video from the Gartner Data Center Conference, DMTF President Winston Bumpus talks about the news, and the organization’s recent work in server virtualization standards:

The CMDB working group is comprised of BMC Software, CA, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Microsoft — the project has been in the works since April 2006.