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Understanding Federated CMDB's and How to Take Advantage of Real-Time, Automatic Discovery to Continuously Populate Them

Both the value and promise of a Configuration Management Database CMDB are in having a dynamic and accurate picture of what one manages across the infrastructure, a cohesive and consistent way to consolidate management data, the ability to do cross-infrastructure analysis on the integrated management database for operational effectiveness, capturing...

Tags: CMDB, nLayers

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ITIL Best Practices Framework

This webinar outlines the importance of operating under a "best practices" framework.

Tags: Framework, nLayers, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

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Preparing for ITIL Initiatives: ITs DC Challenge - The Forest & the Trees

IT organizations need to identify, control, verify, and manage their complex data center environments to meet ITIL and ITSM framework initiatives. The challenge that IT faces is finding and controlling the trees within the forest of their datacenters. The first step with any ITIL initiative is to "Discover" and "Map"...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, nLayers, ITIL, Data Centers, Process Improvement, It Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Quality, Business Operations

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ITIL Initiatives, Federated CMDBs, and Configuration Item (CI) Dependencies...Where to Start?

IT organizations need to collect and maintain an accurate inventory in order to put configuration and change management controls in place. To do this, they need to normalize the CIs in use and reduce the variation within the enterprise. The starting point is to discover what is out there, what...

Tags: CMDB, Dependency, nLayers, Change Management, ITIL, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Services

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Will RSA give EMC the respect it desires?

As expected, EMC acquired RSA Security today. The $2.1 billion transaction adds another arrow to EMC's quiver, which includes storage systems, resource management, content management and virtualization. "EMC is where information lives and tomorrow EMC will be the company where information...

Tags: EMC Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-29

BMC's new CTO touts virtues of BSM

BMC's new CTO, Tom Bishop--who previously held the same post at Tivoli Software-- recently spoke with Computerworld about the jump. Bishop is banking on the increasing importance of Business Service Management BSM and believes that BMC’s experience and approach is the right one. "IT needs to be managed as...

Tags: information technology, CMDB, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2005-05-23