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 ...

IT shops implementing Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) should take precautions to ensure project success, prevent unnecessary project delays, and speed time-to-value. This article focuses on ...

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 ...

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.

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In enterprise systems management, the configuration management database, or CMDB, is one of today’s most oft-heard acronyms — which coincidentally has also neared the top of Gartner’s hype cycle at ...

The CMDB can consolidate and reconcile information about an IT environment within a common view, providing greater management control over IT processes. The "common view" enables improvement over a ...

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, ...

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PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, announced it is augmenting ServiceDesk Plus, its ITIL-ready help desk software, with new integrated asset ...