ITOM Practices for Change Risk Assessment: The Blind Spot Before the Window
On October 29, 2025, an inadvertent configuration change on Azure Front Door bypassed Microsoft’s own validation safeguards and spread across …
CMDB Models for Agentic IT: Federated, Mesh, or Hub-and-Spoke?
In July 2025, a developer at SaaStr used a Replit AI agent during an active code freeze to run what …
Agentic Lock-In Is a Different, Worse Risk Than Platform Lock-In
Most vendor lock-in talk still treats the problem as one general risk. Export the data, retrain the team, point the …
How to Ensure GDPR Compliance for Databases and Avoid Auditor Findings
In August 2026, Uber was fined nearly €825 million under the GDPR for fully automated driver deactivations without adequate human …
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy: What It Should Cover and Where It Breaks Down
Company-owned laptops for every role burn budget and time. Procurement cannot keep pace with every remote hire, contractor, or seasonal …
Best Approaches to Multi-Source CI Reconciliation for Hybrid Estates
The best approach to multi-source CI reconciliation for hybrid estates is a two-layer model: identity matching first (deterministic keys where …
Spiceworks Alternative: What IT Teams Actually Need
You are looking for a Spiceworks alternative because free network-scan inventory stopped answering the questions your change and incident decisions …
Atera Alternative: When RMM and Ticketing Stop Answering Estate Truth
The RMM agents are green. Tickets move. Patch jobs finish on schedule. Then a change window fails because nobody can …
ITIL 5 Digital Product and Service Lifecycle: what changed under the new value chain
In early 2026, PeopleCert moved ITIL Version 5 into the open. The Foundation course and exam went live from 12 …
