Microsoft announced the "general availability" commercial release today of System Center Configuration Manager 1511. The company also released System Center Endpoint Protection 1511. Both products can ...

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When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

The concept of a configuration management system (CMS) is an idea whose time has come - particularly since the release of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3, known as V3. ITIL V3 devotes ...

The security management system or configuration management database provides the role and business value of each node, and a topology database (generated by a network configuration management system ...

(1) In a network, a system for gathering current configuration information from all nodes in a LAN. (2) In software development, a system for keeping track of large projects. Although version control, ...

The frenzy of activity triggered by a network attack requires a new approach to threat management, one that makes the network and its resources a partner in its own defense and allows security and ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...

“It would therefore be desirable to provide systems and methods to automatically facilitate implementation of a secure configuration management strategy in a way that results in an accurate and ...