Key founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software project. Reductive Labs, which has evolved from ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

If you need to deploy hundreds of server or client nodes in parallel, maybe on-premises or in the cloud, and you need to configure each and every single one of them, what do you do? How do you do it?

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A review of the configuration management tool, Chef Progress. Learn about its features, pricing, and benefits. Chef (aka Progress Chef) is a configuration management tool that helps organizations ...

We have entered the era of multiple security frameworks. Sometimes mandatory, often voluntary, security frameworks are created to provide federal and commercial organizations with an effective roadmap ...

When it comes to IT security, the typical defensive toolsets garner all the attention: firewalls, antivirus and antispyware apps, as well as intrusion-detection and prevention systems. While they all ...

Its open-source Cloud Control Framework gives Cisco a common template to meet security standards and regulatory requirements across the globe. An XKCD comic strip shows two tech workers frustrated ...

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 ...