Configuration Management
Configuration management (CM) is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. Configuration management (CM) is the detailed recording and updating of information that describes an enterprise's hardware and software. Configuration information typically includes the versions and updates that have been applied to installed software packages and the locations and network addresses of hardware devices.Article: 25 IT Environment Performance Metrics for Taking Your Organization to the Next Level
We've identified 25 key IT performance metrics that you can apply to take your IT organization to success.
Article: 4 Configuration Knowledge Hurdles and How to Fight Them
The amount of configuration information available in the entire IT environment of the enterprise is staggering. Here we highlight 4 of the major challenges for IT professionals in managing configuration knowledge.
Article: 5 Reasons Why Virtualization Could Turn into a Nightmare Without Configuration Management
One of the virtualization myths is that in the virtual world configuration management is just not important. The reality is that Change Management and Configuration management is crucial for virtualized environments. Here are 5 reasons why you...
Article: 5 Ways to Make your CMS Investment more Effective
Your Configuration Management System can not and will not present an accurate and detailed...
Article: 7 Terrific Ways for Applying IT Analytics to Dramatically Improve IT Operations
IT is moving to apply an analytics-driven approach to better manage IT operations, significantly improving how configuration information is handled. Check out our list and see how to leverage analytics to get the most out of configuration data for...
Article: 8 Cloud Building Conditions You Need for Taking your Data Center to the Next Level
Implementing cloud-based services involves a complex integration of software and hardware components from various vendors, and can often result in an expensive development. So it is important for all players, from service providers to...
Article: A Configuration Change Takes Down Facebook for Almost 3 Hours
Facebook had almost 3 hours of downtime last week following a small configuration change, in now what is being called the worst outage for the site in four years.
Article: An Executive’s Look Ahead at 4 Configuration Management Tool Trends for 2011
In 2010, there were a number of both prominent and subtle trends in IT. These developments will continue to influence and...
Article: APM Digest: Control or Change? Maintaining Enterprise Performance Without Compromising Innovation
Businesses will need change management and configuration management resources that can allow them to effectively drive...
Article: Big Data for IT? Get a Handle on Small Data First!
The problem for IT is not big data itself, but analyzing and being able to take actions based on the data.
Article: Change Management Challenges in Today's Complex IT Landscape
IT operations teams face the strain of constant change requests, further compounded by increasingly complex environments that need to be kept available and operating at high performance continuously. Due to this, the main cause of slowdown in IT...
Article: Cloud Configuration Management is Critical for Leveraging Cloud Advantages
To realize the benefits of cloud, IT still needs to invest in cloud configuration management and make it a critical part of cloud-based operations.
Article: CM Crossroads: Analytics-powered IT Operations for Taking on the Cloud
A new approach is clearly needed to handle the complexity and dynamics introduced by today's virtualization and cloud...
Article: Complexity in the Modern Data Center and How to Overcome it (a Webinar with Forrester)
Forrester VP and Principle Analyst, Jean-Pierre Garbani, brought in an impressive crowd in withhis impressive insights on how the new realities of today's IT landscape and complexity impact change & configuration management. Learn how a new...
Article: Configuration Management to Keep Virtualization On Target
The growth of virtual environments makes management increasingly complex making it more difficult to optimize and control. Consider these areas of virtualization management to ensure that the benefits promised through virtualization are not lost....
Article: Control and Agility in IT: BSM Review Interviews Evolven CEO Sasha Gilenson
The BSM Review recently interviewed Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven, to gain insights into how best to balance control and agility for today's IT Operations and still meet the ongoing needs of the business.
Article: Costs and Scope of Unplanned Outages
Despite advances in infrastructure robustness, occasional hardware, software and database downtime still occurs. We know that outages are big, but how big is the cost of unplanned IT outages?
Article: Critical IIS Configurations Top Picks
As IIS administrators, you need to quickly focus in on the most critical IIS configurations necessary to boost IIS performance. So we've compiled for you below the top picks, chosen by our customers' IIS experts, that you should definitely watch...
Article: Critical Microsoft 2008 Server Application Configurations Top Picks
Microsoft 2008 Server Application administrator? See the configuration top picks we've compiled, chosen from the Microsoft 2008 Server Application experts amongst our customers, that you should definitely worry about, helping you to keep reliable...
Article: DevOps Developments: Bob Aiello Interviews Sasha Gilenson
DevOps stands to make a major impact on the hectic implementation of application releases and ongoing change requests, bringing Development and Operations closer together and working in tighter cooperation. Bob Aiello of CM Crossroads video interviews...
