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 ...

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 ...

As most of you know, EMA has been actively working to research and develop best practices around the planning and deployment of the IT Infrastructure Library’s Configuration Management Database.

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 ...

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, ...

Over the last year, I’ve written on the topic of the Configuration Management Database as proposed by the IT Infrastructure Library in its best practices for service management. The CMDB has since ...

Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows. After over a week of speculation, ServiceNow announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy ...

Based on industry-standard IT Infrastructure Library requirements for enterprisewide database management with consistency and simplified integration among different management processes, the CMDB is ...