Optimizing Your CMDB/CMS Investments in an Increasingly Real-Time Universe

Is your organization embarking on a Configuration Management Database, CMDB, initiative? Configuration Management systems are helping companies gain operational efficiencies, improve IT service availability and reduce hardware and software costs. Our speaker has been involved with ongoing research and consulting to help CMDB and Configuration Management Systems initiatives succeed. He will explain how our peers are driving real-world business value from their CMDB system investments.

 

Join us for an informative session where we will explore the fundamentals for linking CMDB system investments to active advantages. Our speaker will discuss:

• How CMDB deployments have evolved over the last few Years and why 2010-2011 represents a significant inflection point in the evolution of the CMDB towards a more federated CMS model.
• Why the CMDB/CMS is more relevant than ever in an age of Cloud Computing and virtualized infrastructure
• Why some CMDB deployments are succeeding more quickly than others
• How companies are shifting priorities in investment, architecture, politics, and process related to CMDBs
• What type of business benefits have your peers achieved from CMDB deployments
• What are the most significant governing factors in providing real financial benefits
• Which technologies are providing higher satisfaction levels, and perhaps more importantly, which aren't
• How to link your CMDB/CMS to a more real-time, service management solution for significant additive values

Tracks: Applications Programming, Architecture, Enterprise Data Center Management, IT & the Bottom Line, IT Management and Operations Support