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What is IT Foundation Management?
By Terry Schurter IT Foundation Management is a relatively new category of software that solves a pressing, and heretofore chaotically addressed, gap in the traditional approach to IT Infrastructure...
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Let’s Talk about Compliance (and Change Management)
By Pam Johnson Compliance is one of those subjects that keeps a lot of people up at night. It doesn’t matter what the compliance driver is, whether it’s SOX, PCI, NERC-CIP, HIPAA, etc. Or even if it’s...
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Taming Virtualization. Part 2 – Virtual Machines (VMs) must be Compliant!
By Tom Kearns (Read Part 1 of “Taming Virtualization” here…) The most challenging aspect of VMs is compliance – and that challenge is quickly becoming a real burning issue. The problem is this: Most VM...
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Taming Virtualization. Part 3 – Virtual Machine (VM) Security (Privileged...
By Tom Kearns (Read Part 1 and Part 2 of “Taming Virtualization”) Securing VM privileged interfaces is very important. Human error, out-of-policy activity, and malicious insiders operating through...
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Baseline Configuration Management
By Tom Kearns One of the challenges I have been running across a lot lately is the need to ensure that devices in the IT Infrastructure are configured properly against a formal configuration policy....
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The Change Management Database (CMDB) only works when it’s Up-to-Date and...
By Tom Kearns The entire idea of having a CMDB is to have a single, definitive resource for the configuration of all IT assets. The concept is great but the unfortunate reality is that many times we...
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