Configuration management has been a foundational building block of management – but like the foundation of a building, it’s easy to walk right by and not pay any attention to it. These days, however, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Cfengine is known by many system administrators to be an excellent tool to automate manual tasks on UNIX and Linux-based machines. It also is the most comprehensive framework to execute administrative ...

Even as other process industries realize significant benefits when they move from primarily document-centric asset management systems to data-centric systems, the nuclear power industry has yet to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the last 30 years, vehicle configuration complexity has increased almost exponentially.