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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) has long served as the backbone of IT ...

JR Raphael, best known for his work covering Android and other parts of the Google universe, has written about technology for two decades. Managing a company’s tech arsenal these days is kind of like ...

Configuration management is the smart way to administer IT assets since it permits the implementation of a standard, consistent and predictable environment so existing systems can be maintained with ...

As VoIP moves from the labs to production environments, the network becomes a more important corporate asset and thus the effect of downtime will be more acute. While companies spend millions on ...

Gartner Group. “Configuration management broadens it reach in IT operations.” An IT manager’s biggest headache lately is compliance with the many legislative mandates that have come down the pike.

“Technical effects of some embodiments of the invention are improved and computerized ways to facilitate implementation of a secure configuration management strategy in a way that results in an ...