New automated server configuration management software promises to lessen your staff's workload in the data center while boosting server security, configuration consistency and availability.

From the present through 2004, a new generation of tools will assist customers in automating change management for both servers and storage systems. Provisioning is not a new concept.

Rather than leaving the process of server provisioning and configuration management to system administrators, any engineer can easily write infrastructure code and engage in the activities of the ...

Although widely considered a configuration management product, Chef seems to think bigger than comparable tools on the market. Chef was designed with a devops culture in mind, and in addition to ...

And in one of the LinuxWorld keynotes, Dave Dargo, vice president of Oracles Linux Program Office, said that Oracle will focus on configuration management in 2004.

5. Change Control – Configuration management is strongly linked with the change management process. Without a valid change ticket, a CI cannot be touched – for modifying of course.