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

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 ...

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, ...

Managing the information systems in a large company is a huge task that is performed by many people. Following are some of the major functions. See systems management and enterprise networking. There ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

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In enterprise systems management, the configuration management database, or CMDB, is one of today’s most oft-heard acronyms — which coincidentally has also neared the top of Gartner’s hype cycle at ...

Product configuration systems (PCSs) are sophisticated IT frameworks that enable companies to manage product customisation and complexity by structuring and controlling the vast variability inherent ...

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 ...

BMC Software Inc. this week announced its BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), saying that it’s the first enterprise management software vendor to release such a product for ensuring ...