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David Savino, Tom Bishop and Ken Jochims - Are you wondering what, exactly, is a configuration management system, or CMS? How is a CMS different from a configuration management database (CMDB)? Why should IT organizations even care? Get some insights on these terms and concepts in this podcast.

Atwell Williams, solutions architect in the office of the CTO, shares his excitement about BMC partners, the sessions he has attended, and the presentations he's given at UserWorld 2007 in Vancouver. He developed a special course called "So I've got a CMDB. Now what?" to answer questions customers have after they've implemented the configuration management database. He goes on to discuss the state of BSM and BSM Next (or the potential of BSM 3.0), as well as ITIL v3 concepts.

Have you ever met a geochemist? If you didn't attend BMC UserWorld 2007 in Vancouver, you missed an opportunity to listen to Sydney Dent, BMC's resident geochemist and instructor in advanced asset management topics. How do you carefully craft your CMDB so that it accomodates the needs of asset management? Sydney has all the tips and tricks.

A conversation with Lenny Warren about customizing IT education specifically for a single customer's complex environment. Lenny is also at BMC UserWorld 2007 in Vancouver to teach tips and tricks for performance tuning, ITSM, and the CMDB.

Senior technical instructor Paul Buffington is enthusiastic about the course he's teaching at BMC UserWorld 2007 in Vancouver -- the CMDB Architect's Kit. He's focused on helping IT professionals move up the maturity curve, especially moving from the technology layer to the process layer.

Julie Hawkes discusses ITSM and CMDB education courses she is instructing and why she is passionate about watching her customers grow in their IT education.

While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with John Willis and Mark Hinkle about CMDBs and federated CMDBs. Mark starts out with a general update on Zenoss, and then after briefly talking about model-driven IT management, all three of us talk about CMDBs in general and how federation is doing in that area. Tags: Austin InnoTech conference, John Willis, Mark Hinkle, CMDB, Zenoss, IT

First, it was whole-machine virtualization; now, application virtualization is taking the enterprise by storm. But what is application virtualization, and what advantages can it bring to the corporate IT environment? In this podcast, Jeanne Morain, senior manager of configuration automation products at BMC Software, Inc., is joined by Jonathan Clark, president and CTO of a new BMC partner, Thinstall, maker of a clientless, agentless virtualization application solution. Together, they discuss the advantages of Thinstall's agentless technology, how combining application virtualization with configuration management delivers great value, and more.

Whether you already have in mind a grand plan for implementing your CMDB, or you don’t have a clue where to begin, this podcast is for you. Tom Bishop, chief technology officer at BMC Software, has helped implement more than 500 CMDBs at various customer sites, so he is well-positioned to offer advice that can help your CMDB implementation run much more smoothly.

From small CMDB implementations with 5,000 configuration items (CIs), to large implementations with millions, Jeanne Morain, senior manager of configuration automation products at BMC Software, has seen it all. Listen to this podcast for her real-world tips on how to optimize your configuration management database (CMDB) as well as insights on service delivery, discovery, and BSM.

The guide to help you with successful CMDB planning, CI building, and every other logical step of your CMDB implementation -- the Step-By-Step Guide to Building the CMDB -- is now available. Ken Turbitt, BMC Software’s global best practices director and one of several co-authors, shares why this book was created, what it offers (and what more he wishes it offered), and how you can get your copy.

How many subject-matter experts does it take to develop the Configuration Items (CIs) for your CMDB? And, how many different times zones do you have to criss-cross to be able to engage in a group discussion with all of those experts? If you're a configuration manager following a traditional, top-down approach to building a CMDB, you're probably facing a huge challenge identifying your CIs, building the relationships between them, and putting together your service model. However, another option is the introduction of open design concepts into your process similar to those used in social media tools like wikis and folksonomies. This can be the easier way to help you extract and corral all of the information that is tucked inside each SME, as well as ensuring your CMDB is continually maintained.