Automating the deployment and configuration of systems is meaningless if the automation isn’t a force multiplier, streamlining the adoption of new technologies and practices while maintaining service ...

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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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 ...

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Configuration has become an invisible yet dramatic risk for today’s enterprises rolling-out large technology platforms. From airline system outages to data exposure incidents, small misconfigurations ...

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

Every once in a while a product comes along that fundamentally alters your perception of what is possible with IT. For me, it was the first time I saw Microsoft’s IntelliMirror technology. The ...

As state and local agencies accelerate cloud adoption, security and compliance issues increasingly stem not from missing ...