CMDB brings order to chaos in IT operations

There is, however, another approach to the distributed CMDB that is making fast headway. Called real-time or virtual CMDB, this alternative to central and distributed approaches looks to remove some of the common obstacles interfering with CMDB success. The basis of a virtual CMDB approach is that t...

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Published inEnterprise networks & servers Vol. 11; no. 9; p. 1
Main Author Coyne, Pierre
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cedar Park Publications & Communications, Inc 01.09.2005
Subjects
Asset management
Best practice
Business community
Computer architecture
Data bases
Divisions
Enterprisewide computing
Information management
Information technology
Systems design
Technological planning
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Summary:There is, however, another approach to the distributed CMDB that is making fast headway. Called real-time or virtual CMDB, this alternative to central and distributed approaches looks to remove some of the common obstacles interfering with CMDB success. The basis of a virtual CMDB approach is that the value of a CMDB is to provide specialized data to the various audiences - a.k.a. visualization.