Chef Habitat is a one-year-old application configuration management project, designed to extend in a different direction from Chef's main focus by separating the application from infrastructure ...

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 ...

Back in the dim, dark past, much of the IT team's focus was to manage changes to IT resources. Some of this was around software (operating system and drivers), but mainly it was at the server level, ...

A review of the configuration management tool, Chef Progress. Learn about its features, pricing, and benefits. Chef (aka Progress Chef) is a configuration management tool that helps organizations ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Any Linux distribution will come with a set of administration tools built in. These tools may be user-friendly and helpful, but they are, as a general rule, not aimed at an administrator who has a ...

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In my conversations with customers and partners, there are two topics that are different but somewhat related: compliance and device configuration management. In my latest blog, “Compliant or not?

Configuration management is one of the few processes that overarch all other process and service lifecycle phases in ITIL V3. Wthout it, the effectiveness of the rest of your processes will be in ...