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 ...

A slew of vendors in the coming weeks will make their network configuration management tools available to corporate customers looking to automate the tedious and error-prone job of configuring ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Automation provider BackBox adds network configuration management tools and ServiceNow integration to its platform to improve security, optimize performance, and accelerate problem resolution. BackBox ...

Hewlett-Packard has reorganized its suite of enterprise configuration-management software, collecting into one package a number of its asset discovery tools and equipping its asset database for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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