IT is rife with exorbitant -- and often conflicting -- processes that IT admins must carry out with speed, efficiency and success. These admins must understand the differences between certain IT ...

Configuration management, or CM, is a governance and systems engineering process used to track and control IT resources, services and applications across an enterprise. When properly implemented, ...

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 ...

St. Paul, MN (April 7, 2009) -- Shavlik Technologies, LLC, the market leader in simplifying and automating critical IT operational tasks, today announced results of a survey the company recently ...

Configuration simply refers to the arrangement of the parts or elements of something, and management refers to the act or practice of managing. By combining both words, it could be stated that ...

McAfee Application Control 5.0 (due out Dec. 15) is the result of McAfee’s acquisition of Solidcore and the integration of Solidcore S3 Control with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). McAfee ...

Application Control helps determine the trustworthiness of each app instead of assuming an overall trust on the system apps, therefore greatly reducing system attacks, especially via executive files.