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What Is SACM? A Practical Guide for IT Teams
TLDR: SACM (Service Asset and Configuration Management) is the ITIL 4 practice that governs how configuration items (CIs) are identified, …
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CMDB vs. SACM: Understanding the Difference and Why Both Matter in ITIL v4
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CMDB Implementation: A Step-by-Step Guide
Most CMDB implementations don’t fail because of a bad tool choice. They fail because the foundational decisions were wrong before …
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AWS Lambda, App Runner, and Batch in CMDB: Why Serverless Assets Need Configuration Management Too
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Serverless does not mean infrastructure-free. AWS Lambda functions, App Runner services, and Batch compute environments are configuration items with …
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Kubernetes CMDB Discovery: How to Track EKS, ECS, AKS, and Containerized Workloads in Your CMDB
The Kubernetes CMDB Gap
Why Kubernetes Is Different from Traditional Infrastructure
AWS EKS Discovery: Clusters, Node Groups,
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Azure Cosmos DB, Functions, and Key Vault in CMDB: Closing the PaaS Discovery Gap
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The PaaS Discovery Gap in Azure Environments
Why Azure PaaS Is Different from Azure VMs in
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CMDB asset management vs ITAM: Key differences explained
What is ITAM (IT asset management)?
What is a CMDB?
Why do you need both ITAM and
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Asset management vs. configuration management
What is IT asset management?
Why asset management matters
Tracking asset locations and states through an asset
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What are the ITSM trends in 2020?
Top ITSM trends to give heed to
Preventing Service Shutdown
The relationship between the data needed to
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