"Configuration Management" Articles & Interviews

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  1. Getting the Most out of Your CMDB

    [ Interview ] Topic: Configuration Management | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 06/05/2006

    Arthur Cole spoke with Brian Emerson, senior solutions marketing manager, Atrium technologies, and John McKenny, director of marketing for mainframe service management, BMC Software . Cole : Your approach to the configuration management database (CMDB) is that it should contain only select...

  2. Desire for Enhanced Visibility Drives Increased Interest in CMDB

    [ Interview ] Topic: Change Management | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 10/05/2007

    Ann All spoke with Kurt Milne, managing director of the IT Process Institute , an independent research organization that exists to support the membership of IT operations, security and audit professionals. Its mission is to identify practices that are proven to improve the performance of IT...

  3. Firewall Scrutiny a Key to Successful Compliance Initiatives

    [ Interview ] Topic: Firewall | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 04/04/2008

    Carl Weinschenk spoke with Avishai Wool, CTO, AlgoSec . Weinschenk : How important is the relationship between compliance and how a firewall is managed? Wool : Recent regulatory developments put firewalls in the middle of compliance reporting. Specifically, the Payment Card Industry Data...

  4. The Risk of Underestimating Risk Management

    [ Article ] Topic: Risk Management | Author: DennisByron | Date Published: 08/05/2008

    Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management is a buzzword du jour. But because of that, IT management and staff might ignore it. Don’t! The combination of an explosion in unstructured data to be managed and the coming exponential growth in services — many of them crossing firewalls by design —...

  5. With Vista, Enterprises Are Shouting. Is Microsoft Listening?

    [ Interview ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 05/14/2008

    Susan Hall spoke with analyst Roger Kay, president and founder of Endpoint Technologies Associates . Hall : Is this gnashing of teeth over Vista essentially any different than when XP came out? Kay : Microsoft made the case that that was true when Vista came out, but I think after a year...

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