Technology Debt & EOL Exposure: Tracking Lifecycle Risk
Enterprise technology debt builds up quietly across data centers and cloud tenants. Hardware crosses End of Support (EOS) and software …
Cloud Migration Planning With Dependency and Wave Mapping
A team migrates a web server to AWS while its database stays on-premises. Network latency spikes within minutes, a firewall …
Capacity Planning From Live Inventory: Where Workloads Should Land
Place two compute-heavy, interconnected workloads on the same physical host, and shared memory and network contention can degrade an entire …
Unit-Cost Showback Breaks When Infrastructure Has No Business-Service Owner
Finance publishes the quarterly showback pack. Three service owners reject the same shared-platform line. Finance defends the rate card and …
SOX IT General Controls Depend on the System Inventory the CMDB Holds
Access reviews and change tickets look clean until the auditor asks a simple question: which systems sit in scope for …
Kratos Is Gone; Its Buyers and Users Remain
On July 20, 2026, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s cybercrime unit (ZIT), working with …
CMDB Buyer Guide: How to Evaluate Platforms for SRE and IT Ops
A critical production outage just hit your platform. Your incident commander opens the CMDB expecting to understand service dependencies and …
The Discovery Debt: Why 2,500 Companies Paid in Months for Visibility They Deferred
In March 2026, a threat actor group called TeamPCP orchestrated the largest AI supply chain attack on record. Over 2,500 …
Every AI Agent Has a Risk Tolerance Slider: Enterprise IT Inherited Its Default
The configuration management database (CMDB) is the record IT leaders treat as ground truth. The IT service management (ITSM) platform …
