by Blazent | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Top 5
During the past 18 months, there has been an increasing trend of companies expanding their use of Operational Technology (OT) beyond traditional manufacturing and logistics applications into areas of the business that traditional IT previously supported. With OT...
by Blazent | Mar 30, 2017 | Top 5
While not highly visible to the end consumer, a well-managed Configuration Management Database (CMDB) provides the backbone for every automated workflow in a modern enterprise. Here is a retrospective on the top 5 CMDB challenges identified in 2017, and how they have...
by Michael Nicholas | Mar 23, 2017 | Top 5
The most common strategy for populating a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is deploying IT asset discovery and mapping scanners. Unfortunately, discovery as a standalone enablement process is heavily flawed. When organizations fail to verify what their...
by Blazent | Mar 16, 2017 | Top 5
Layered data models have been with us for decades. During the 70’s, businesses communicated using proprietary networking architectures, such as the seven-layer IBM SNA model. Today, the six-layer OSI networking model, which is the basis of the Internet, has evolved to...
by Blazent | Mar 8, 2017 | Top 5
Enterprise IT operations run on data, but raw data alone is a liability. While standard discovery and dependency mapping tools can identify active IP addresses on a network, they frequently generate conflicting or incomplete records. To build a highly resilient...
by Blazent | Feb 28, 2017 | Top 5
Every year, a new wave of catastrophic data breaches dominates the headlines. While the attack vectors become increasingly sophisticated, a post-mortem analysis almost always reveals a remarkably simple root cause: the enterprise lacked the visibility required to...
