Using CMDB Effectively in an ITIL Environment
What Is a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)? A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is a centralized repository that stores information about the various components of an IT system, known as configuration items (CIs). These CIs can include hardware, software, and network components, among others. The primary purpose of a CMDB is to provide a single source […]
CMDB: 4 Key Capabilities, Pros/Cons, and Best Practices [2025]
What Is a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)? A configuration management database (CMDB) is a centralized repository that stores information about the IT environment, including hardware, software, and associated documentation. This database serves as a source of information that can be accessed and analyzed to support various IT service management (ITSM) processes. CMDBs help organizations maintain […]
Top 10 CMDB Tools for 2026: Detailed Feature Comparison
What Are CMDB Tools? Configuration Management Database (CMDB) tools are software applications used to track IT assets, system components, and their relationships. They maintain data about IT assets, also known as Configuration Items (CIs), which can include hardware, software, network components, and other IT-related assets. By consolidating this data, CMDB tools are an important enabler […]
A Best Practice Blueprint for Your Data Center Architecture
Data lies at the heart of everything you do as a business. From e-commerce to logistics and supply chains, in every industry around the world, the seamless online experiences customers have come to expect rely on how companies store, process, and distribute data and applications. How organizations handle these functions has a massive impact. This […]
How to Develop a Data Center Consolidation Strategy
Data centers are the foundation of applications, workloads, and data in the digital era. As data centers simultaneously consolidate and grow, their place in the market continues to evolve. This duality of contraction and expansion has many drivers, including application/data growth, analytics, IoT, and AI, the move from owned assets to hybrid cloud/multicloud, and sustainability […]
How to Create a Data Center Transformation Strategy
Today’s average data center houses zettabytes of data and thousands of shared applications. This makes continuous data-center evolution the key to business competitiveness and innovation. The increasing demands of a hybrid remote workforce, energy costs, carbon-footprint concerns, and other factors are driving this need to evolve. All data centers face the challenge of handling huge […]
Active Scanning vs. Passive Scanning in IT Environments and Data Centers
Whether it is called periodic scanning or active scanning, the fact is that it is an insufficient form of scanning. Today’s complex and fast-paced data centers need continuous scanning capabilities, and this can only be done effectively with passive mapping technology. Learn more in our detailed guide to agentless scanning vs agent-based scanning For example, […]
Using Faddom to Identify the Log4J Vulnerability
Overview Recently, a serious vulnerability was found in the popular Log4J library which allows an attacker to execute code on a server. The vulnerability, CVE-2021-44228, also know as Log4Shell does not affect Faddom, but does affect countless products and can be a serious security risk. To see details on the vulnerability, you can check the […]
IT Disaster Recovery: What is It?
IT infrastructure has become a critical component of today’s business world. As more organizations rely on computing power, storage, and applications, being without these mission-essential assets is an almost unfathomable thought, underpinning the importance of investing in disaster recovery. This glossary explores what disaster recovery is, why it matters, and what goes into developing an […]
Introducing NetFlow and sFlow for Network Visibility
One of the biggest challenges in modern data centers is getting visibility into what is happening on the network. Whether you want to get information on East-West traffic inside the data center, or North-South, in and out, with the sheer complexity and volume of data flowing through modern networks, this can be a daunting task. […]