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 ...

A configuration management database (CMDB) is a data repository that stores information about all hardware and software assets in your IT environment. This critical component of the ITIL framework ...

Key founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software project. Reductive Labs, which has evolved from ...

Adobe Systems is contributing code to the Puppet data center automation and configuration management framework project to manage the open-source Hadoop project. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years ...

When it comes to IT security, the typical defensive toolsets garner all the attention: firewalls, antivirus and antispyware apps, as well as intrusion-detection and prevention systems. While they all ...

Chris Jackson, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, said, We sat down and asked ourselves this question: if we didn’t know anything at all about your environment, what security policies and ...

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 ...