With the growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many organizations are ...

IT shops implementing Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) should take precautions to ensure project success, prevent unnecessary project delays, and speed time-to-value. This article focuses on ...

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ITIL: What goes in a Configuration Management Plan? Your email has been sent Configuration management is one of the few processes that overarch all other process and service lifecycle phases in ITIL ...

Oracle has apparently raised the cost of some management options for its flagship database by 40 percent, according to an official price list dated July 1. Processor licenses for the company’s ...

Even as other process industries realize significant benefits when they move from primarily document-centric asset management systems to data-centric systems, the nuclear power industry has yet to ...

Oracle’s decision to hike the price of some add-ons for its flagship database by about 40 percent was far from a random act, since the modules are crucial to getting the database to perform at the ...

The database giant is trying to get more money from high-end users by raising the cost of tuning and diagnostic modules Oracle’s decision to hike the price of some add-ons for its flagship database by ...

Database management system (DBMS) configuration tuning is an essential aspect of any data-intensive application effort. But it is historically difficult because DBMSs have hundreds of configuration ...