by Robert Hansen | Sep 28, 2022 | Blazent Platform, CMDB Data Quality
Of all the “silver bullets” promised for IT management, the standalone discovery tool is arguably the most oversold. For decades, vendors have promised that if you simply point their scanner at your IT infrastructure, it will miraculously discover...
by Michael Nicholas | Feb 14, 2018 | Data Management
From the Archives: In early 2018, Blazent published a framework for enterprise data health. Nearly a decade later, we look back at those original principles to see how they hold up in the era of hybrid-cloud architecture and autonomous IT. In 2018, we published five...
by Blazent | Apr 4, 2017 | Data Management
Modern enterprise leaders depend on infrastructure telemetry to drive their automated workflows. In theory, more data is a good thing. It means you have granular visibility into your cloud workloads, edge devices, and security endpoints. In reality, if the telemetry...
by Blazent | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
Let’s look upstream of your Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB)/Asset repository. How does the data enter the system? Think it’s a streamlined process? Think again. Asset provisioning has always been a process IT professionals love to hate. Stories are...
by Blazent | Sep 15, 2016 | Data Management, Data Quality
Like every other aspect of digital management, data management continues to evolve. Early pre-relational mainframe systems, such as IMS, VSAM and IDMS, placed little emphasis on data quality. These hierarchical, key-indexed and linked-list databases are very prone to...
