IT shops implementing Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) should take precautions to ensure project success, prevent unnecessary project delays, and speed time-to-value. This article focuses on ...

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With the growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many organizations are ...

Based on industry-standard IT Infrastructure Library requirements for enterprisewide database management with consistency and simplified integration among different management processes, the CMDB is ...

CMDB, at its heart, is a historical database of how distributed systems within a federated network operate and change over time. Version 2.0 provides added support for storage devices and mainframes, ...

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With so much of the modern enterprise powered by IT, visibility into IT infrastructure is mission critical. As IT infrastructure continues to grow and become more complex, this sought-after visibility ...

ITIL: What goes in a Configuration Management Plan? Your email has been sent Configuration management is one of the few processes that overarch all other process and service lifecycle phases in ITIL ...

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