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ALSO CALLED: Configuration Management Data Base, Configuration Management Database DEFINITION: A database repository that contains all relevant information about the components of the information system used in an organization's IT services and the relationships between those components. Within this context, components of an information system are referred to as configuration items (CI). A CI can be any conceivable IT component, including software, hardware, documentation, and personnel, as … Definition continues below.
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Achieving an Optimized Security Architecture sponsored by McAfee, Inc. VIDEO: Empower your organization with strategic security. By understanding the fundamentals of building a security architecture, you will be able to respond to business demands while safeguarding your organization. View this video to learn about optimizing your security architecture and addressing current security challenges. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Security \| IT Infrastructure \| Security Architectures \| Security Best Practices \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Management \| Security Software \| Software Best Practices \| Software Implementation

Behind the scenes in Vancouver – 100 days to go sponsored by Atos Origin VIDEO: With just under 100 days to go to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Magnus Alvarsson, chief integrator at Atos Origin explains what has been done so far and what lies ahead for the technology team. Watch this video to understand the remaining steps that must be taken to ensure the 2010 Olympics go off without any major problems. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| ITIL \| Quality Control \| Systems Management \| Testing

Beijing 2008 delivered - Ready for the next stops! sponsored by Atos Origin VIDEO: Watch this video to learn some of the steps Atos Origin took to make sure the Beijing 2208 Olympic Games were successful and learn some of the steps they are taking for future Olympic Games, including Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. Posted: 24 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 24 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Data Quality \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| ITIL \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services \| Testing

Best Practice Insights: ITIL Service Operation sponsored by BMC Software, Inc SCREENCAST: Service Operation, the fourth book in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 publications, assists readers in developing management practices to ensure customers are satisfied and receive the value they expect. BMC experts have compiled an overview based on Service Operation, including valuable commentary, practical guidance and examples. Posted: 03 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 03 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Change Management \| Configuration Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| ITIL

Business Resiliency for a Smarter Planet: New, Affordable Ways to Ensure IBM Power Systems Availability sponsored by Vision Solutions WEBCAST: Do you have the right technologies to compete in today's economic times? IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure™ initiative combined with Resilience 2.0 technologies from Vision Solutions deliver a secure, virtualized, energy efficient, and highly resilient IT environment for businesses of any size. Posted: 05 Mar 2009 \| Premiered: 05 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Performance Management \| Business Structures \| Disaster Recovery \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Risk Management

Changing the Economics of IT: HP Adaptive Infrastructure and VMware vSphere 4.0 sponsored by HP, Intel, & VMware WEBCAST: Many IT managers face the challenge of providing greater business service while keeping costs low. Watch this webcast to learn how to simplify resource management. Gain insight into an advanced processor technology that reallocates energy budget from underutilized cores to those that need to run faster. Posted: 14 Aug 2009 \| Premiered: 14 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Cloud Computing \| Data Center Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| VMware

Cloud computing 101 sponsored by Platform Computing Corporation PODCAST: Tune into this podcast for expert insight into the impact of cloud computing on your IT infrastructure. Hear from cloud computing expert, Jeff Kaplan, as he explains the basic pressures driving cloud computing. Learn about Amazon's influence on the cloud market and discover the 3 elements that attract enterprises to the cloud. Posted: 29 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 29 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Infrastructure Services \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Systems \| Software as a Service

Computing as a Service- New Models for Scaling your Online Business sponsored by Rackspace Hosting & Limelight Networks WEBCAST: Learn how service-based solutions can bring flexibility and lower costs to your IT infrastructure. Find out how to maximize your organization's resources and quickly scale your infrastructure to meet the demands of expanding global online audiences. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Hosting \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Reengineering \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Online Backups \| Online Marketing \| Online Shopping \| Software as a Service

Consolidate Management Software and Reduce Cost sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: This webcast explores a phased approach to consolidating application management solutions, aligning IT infrastructure with business needs and reducing costs. Posted: 27 Jul 2009 \| Premiered: 27 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Management \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Economic Environment \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Network Management \| ROI \| Server Management \| Software Architectures \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning \| Systems Management \| TCO

Data Center Architecture Decisions: A Free Virtual Seminar Focused on Dealing with Data Center Growth in a Down Economy sponsored by Data Center Decisions VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Attend this free virtual event and hear from top data center experts who will provide you with a coherent strategy to consolidate your data center, build a new facility or make an educated decision on the cloud model best suited for your environment. Posted: 10 Nov 2009 \| Premieres: 10 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Construction \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| IT Infrastructure

Dell’s OpenManage Software Demo sponsored by Dell and Symantec VIDEO: Watch this demo to get an overview of the Dell OpenManage systems management solution. This solution is focused on delivering open, flexible, and integrated solutions that reduce the complexity in the systems management space. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Systems Integration \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services \| Systems Management Software \| Systems Operations

Evaluating the Advantages and Pitfalls of SAP Managed Hosting sponsored by Freudenberg IT WEBCAST: In this webcast, you will learn what to look for in an SAP managed hosting provider -- including how to determine your organization's requirements and how to evaluate potential providers. Posted: 16 Jun 2009 \| Premiered: 16 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure Providers \| Application Outsourcing \| Data Centers \| Hosting Services \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Services \| SAP (Product) \| SLA \| SLA Management Services \| Systems Management Services

Future Proofing your HP Business Critical Infrastructure sponsored by Forsythe WEBCAST: In this webcast, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Business IT Alignment \| Capacity Planning \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management

Gartner Videocast-- Lean IT: Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality sponsored by CA VIDEOCAST: Effective management is critical to addressing IT challenges. In this program, leading experts David Williams of Gartner and Roger Pills of CA break down IT's three key challenges to managing IT complexity: aligning IT to the business, managing costs, and IT maturity. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Premiered: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Management \| IT Asset Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| IT Systems

Get More Virtual with Dell and VMware vSphere sponsored by Dell, Inc. WEBCAST: Learn how Dell has designed and integrated the Dell EqualLogic Virtual SAN with VMware® vSphere 4.0 with to help you save money and get more virtual. Posted: 24 Jun 2009 \| Premiered: 24 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| High Performance Computing \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Operating Systems \| Private cloud computing \| TCO \| Virtual Machine \| Virtualization Security

Get More Virtual: Protecting Microsoft Applications with Dell and VMware vSphere 4 sponsored by Dell, Inc. WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn how to ensure application security and availability in your VMware environment. Discover how to provide quick recovery of applications and how to use automation for server application protection. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 20 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| iSCSI SAN \| IT Infrastructure \| Microsoft Exchange \| SCSI Devices \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| VMware

Getting There From Here: Delivering Unified Communications to Your Organization - Part 1 sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: This webcast explains the business value of unified communications to improve productivity by streamlining processes. Discover how to get started and which considerations to keep in mind when implementing this technique. Gain an understanding of various use cases of this approach and determine which applications best fit your needs. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Communications \| Business Processes \| Collaboration \| Communications Hardware \| Communications Networks \| Communications Systems \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Project Management

Getting There From Here: Delivering Unified Communications to Your Organization - Part 2 sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: In this webcast, discover new unified communication (UC) technology that enhances collaboration and conferencing capabilities. Gain insight into four UC applications and how to select the best one for your use cases. Learn how to extend telecommunications, mobility, desktops and applications to improve business operation performance. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Communications \| Business Development \| Collaboration \| Communications Hardware \| Communications Networks \| Communications Systems \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Unified Messaging

HotSchedules Customer Video sponsored by Dell and Microsoft VIDEOCAST: In this video case study watch and learn how Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services HotSchedules deployed a virtualized server infrastructure with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Posted: 15 Dec 2008 \| Premiered: 15 Dec 2008 TOPICS: iSCSI SAN \| IT Infrastructure \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| Virtual Machine Monitor \| Windows Server Software

How to Optimize the Solaris OS on Sun Systems based on Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor Series sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation WEBCAST: Engineering teams from Sun and Intel are collaborating on optimizing how the Solaris ecosystem and the new Intel Core Microarchitecture (formerly code-named Nehalem) for the Intel® Xeon® processor work together, with compelling results. View this webcast to see how these results can improve your own infrastructure. Posted: 17 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 17 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Construction \| Data Center Design \| IT Infrastructure \| Network Architectures \| Rack Servers \| ROI \| Server Software \| Server Virtualization

IBM Virtual Conference Series sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: Our Virtual Conference Series, designed to put you in touch with industry experts, will help you discover how IBM can provide you the innovative technology and world-class expertise to set you on the right path for years to come. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Data Management \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Systems \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| ROI \| TCO

Jazz - Build consensus by improving business and IT collaboration sponsored by IBM VIDEO: Rational Talks to You - Scott Hebner sits down with Redmonk Analyst Michael Cote to discuss latest announcements around the IBM Rational Jazz platform. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Management \| CIOs \| Collaboration \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Systems

Lower IT Costs Now - Roadmap for Developing a Thin-Client Strategy sponsored by PC Connection in partnership with HP ThinClient WEBCAST: This webcast explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies. Posted: 06 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 06 Oct 2009 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| Server Hardware \| Thin Client Hardware

Managing the IT Infrastructure: Ensure Security and Improve Compliance sponsored by Tripwire, Inc. WEBCAST: Tune into this webcast to discover why Tripwire should be your go-to solution for managing the configurations of your physical and virtual IT infrastructures. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Premiered: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Audits \| Configuration Management \| IT Infrastructure \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security Management \| Security Policies

Maximizing Energy Efficiency across the Dynamic Infrastructure sponsored by IBM WEBCAST: Learn more about offerings to improve energy efficiency across your infrastructure. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Premiered: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Energy Efficiency \| Green Data Center \| Green Storage \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management

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CMDB DEFINITION (continued): … A database repository that contains all relevant information about the components of the information system used in an organization's IT services and the relationships between those components. Within this context, components of an information system are referred to as configuration items (CI). A CI can be any conceivable IT component, including software, hardware, documentation, and personnel, as well as any combination of them.Visit WhatIs.com - a knowledge exploration and self-education tool about information technology.

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