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ADM explained, CMDB confusion?
JP Garbani and Richard Muirhead offer their explanation of application dependency mapping and how it relates to “CMDB”.
Understanding Change
The IT industry creates a host of acronyms, such as BSM, CMDB and ITIL, but in reality Knowledge needs to be the foundation of the processes and tools that support IT. Successfully managing that knowledge allows us to be more intelligent about the consequences of change – which will drive out one of prime causes of downtime in IT today.
The Foundation of Knowledge, the Risk of Tribal Knowledge?
Richard Muirhead and JP Garbani discuss the importance of “knowledge” in IT and the risks associated with tribal knowledge.
A single CMDB?
Is CMDB a silver bullet for problems facing the IT departments’ problems today? Do we need one single CMDB to rule them all? In reality different management applications are backended by a CMDB of some description.
Application Dependency Mapping and CMDB
Evelyn Hubbert, Forrester Research, runs through her research on application dependency mapping, the trends in the market and how ADM connects with CMDB.
The ROI in Application Mapping, Getting a Grip
The fastest route to understanding and controlling change is with application mapping. If I understand the dependencies of an application on infrastructure, data, other applications etc then every time I make a change to that application I understand the consequences of that change avoiding potential problems that invariably lead to more unplanned changes.
Application Dependency Mapping is an Enabling Technology
What is ADM? Forrester sees it, combined with ITIL and CMDB, as the foundation for changes to how we will do things in future in IT. Evelyn Hubbert, Forrester Research explains why.
The Adoption of Application Dependency Mapping
After deploying ADM customers can, in the first few months,see a number of beneftis i.e. change impact analysis, greening the data center.
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