by Blazent | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Intelligence, IT Data Management
Consider the following case study: A large enterprise had a long-standing relationship with a major software vendor, who provided a critical software product used widely for many purposes across the enterprise. The price for this product was set based on...
by Blazent | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog, Data Intelligence, Data Management
The Configuration Management Database business case… elusive, intangible. How do you define it? Part of the CMDB challenge is what data to manage. How do we think more systematically about this? First, we need to understand why we want to assemble this...
by Blazent | Jun 21, 2016 | Data Intelligence, Data Management, Data Purification
The rate at which things change can sometimes be so gradual that we barely notice it. Like that one day when we casually grab for and put on someone else’s glasses, only to realize how our vision has changed and how nearsighted we’ve become. Or, you head to the closet...
by Blazent | May 24, 2016 | Blazent Products, Data Intelligence, IT Data Management
As the world of enterprise architecture shifts toward fully autonomous, hybrid-cloud environments, establishing accurate CMDB dependency mapping is frequently complicated by modern engineering techniques. With the massive adoption of GitOps and Infrastructure as Code...
by Blazent | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Data Intelligence, Data Management, IT Data Intelligence
Over the last two decades the IT function has transformed from one that is primarily introverted, focused on building and managing systems that were largely internal facing, to now being the customer face of the business. Service availability used to translate to...
by Blazent | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog, Data Intelligence
For decades, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have tackled the hardest jobs in enterprise architecture: maintaining complex multi-tenant infrastructure while meeting the escalating demands of their clients. However, the sheer scale of ephemeral cloud computing has...