David Ziembicki on Infrastructure Architecture

Over on the MOF and Service Management blog, two new guides have been released detailing how the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) complements the ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000 standards and how MOF can be used in concert with them. While oversimplified, Read More...

When planning server consolidation initiatives, particularly if using a structured offering and tools like SVAM and MAP , underutilized database servers are a frequent consolidation candidate. Similarly, if you have already widely implemented virtualization, Read More...

Glenn O'Donnell over at Forrester had a great post titled “ Is a CMDB even possible? ” that I just came across. As you may know, CMDB stands for Configuration Management Database and is typically defined as a single repository holding all configuration Read More...