IT is rife with exorbitant -- and often conflicting -- processes that IT admins must carry out with speed, efficiency and success. These admins must understand the differences between certain IT ...

Configuration management and asset management move in the same orbit -- the management of an organization's systems and services -- but they have different purposes and goals. One focuses on managing ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

The frenzy of activity triggered by a network attack requires a new approach to threat management, one that makes the network and its resources a partner in its own defense and allows security and ...

2020 OCT 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- A patent by the inventors D’Onofrio, Nicholas M. (Newington, CT); Kraus, Monika L. (Harwinton, CT); Roberts, ...

The concept of a configuration management system (CMS) is an idea whose time has come - particularly since the release of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3, known as V3. ITIL V3 devotes ...

Innovation requires a proactive and structured approach to managing the multiple configurations and variants within a product portfolio. Configuration management (CM) is about ensuring that each ...

(1) In a network, a system for gathering current configuration information from all nodes in a LAN. (2) In software development, a system for keeping track of large projects. Although version control, ...

Beside providing a “surgical strike” response to an attack, network configuration management systems enable easy evaluation of collateral impact. For example, if the primary option is to block a ...

James: I'm James Pease for Take 5, Progressive Railroading's podcasts on topics of interest to rail and transit decision makers. The terms configuration management and configuration control are pretty ...

Product configuration systems (PCSs) are software applications that enable manufacturers to compose complex offerings by combining predefined modules according to customer requirements. By embedding ...