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 ...

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Developing database-backed software, often one finds it convenient to store stuff in the database which one might traditionally express in code, but which is useful to store in the database (so that ...

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 ...

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

A configuration-management database serves as a central repository of information that documents changes to a network. However, some organizations try to track too many things in one place. When that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quick Summary Struggling to maintain consistency and control across dynamic infrastructure environments? Discover the 10 best configuration management tools for DevOps teams in 2026 that help automate ...