BDNA Maps IT Genome Center

BDNA today is rolling out IT Genome Center, a suite of asset management applications backed up by a Technopedia subscription service that contains information on more than 200,000 IT products.

Amit Golan, BDNA vice president of products, says that base-level asset discovery software from BDNA will be free, but the company will charge customers for continuous access to the Technopedia subscription service that will be continuous updated.

Billed as the world’s first “IT encyclopedia,” the driving force behind the service is the simple fact that no one person, or even group of people, can keep track of all the new products and updates in the IT industry. And yet it’s that very information that IT organizations need most when trying to figure out not only what products they have, but which ones are now outdates.

Golan says the BDNA software uses an agentless approach to automatically discover what assets an IT organization has. The software then issues a report that among other things can help IT organizations determine what their carbon footprint is based on all the devices and systems they have running in the enterprise, said Golan.

Pricing for IT Genome Center is organized around what the company calls “sequences,” which essentially are profiles of various vendor products. The company says that on average a company will spend about $15,000 to access two sequences spanning 1,000 desktops and 100 servers.