BMC updated its configuration management database technology to help customers collect data from back-end systems and more easily pull data from distributed sources without a lot of manual effort. BMC ...

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, ...

BMC Software Inc. last week unveiled its second-generation configuration management database, along with updates to its systems management offerings, including three new discovery tools and related ...

BMC Software Inc. sees the configuration management database (CMDB) as the next big thing, even the current big thing, in managing today?s increasingly complex IT environment. And it?s giving it away ...

Organizations require capable change management tools; configuration management databases and asset management platforms are two common choices. There is some functional overlap. These are markedly ...

Over the most of this decade, the IT systems management software sector has reached a classic state of maturity. Two industry giants – HP and IBM – have galvanised their already strong positions by ...

Ensuring a successful configuration management database (CMDB) implementation means taking a very slow, incremental approach and making sure that everyone in IT has a stake in the project's outcome, ...

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 ...