Will Configuration Manager slowly disappear into obsolete or will it change with the times? The answer could still go either way. I've spent the last month debating my stance in last month's column ...

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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 ...

If the Control Panel and the System Configuration tool are something you use frequently then how about adding the latter to the former? By tweaking the Windows Registry, you can add the System ...

We explore some of the best configuration management tools and software for DevOps. Learn about their pricing, features, benefits and more. Best open-source and user-friendly configuration management ...

In today’s cloud-centric world, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, ...

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 ...

Change management is among the most complex and challenging processes Global 2000 organizations face. Indeed, many IT service quality problems can be linked directly to poor change-management ...

Currently, the nuclear industry and governmental organizations are showing an increasing interest in the implementation of Configuration Management (CM) processes as an effective way for limiting ...