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Living without CMDB - The IT Skeptic

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on Sat, 2007-02-10 09:52. [nid:100]

CMDB
ITIL

Artist: The IT Skeptic
Title: Living without CMDB
Album: ITIL
Track: 10
Genre: Speech
Year: 2007
Length: 11:19 minutes (10.36 MB)
Format: Mono 22kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

A podcast of the original article from the IT Skeptic: Living without CMDB
CMDB is positioned as the key underpinning foundation to ITIL:

Configuration Management provides the foundation for successful IT Service Management and underpins every other process. The fundamental deliverable is the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

This is wrong. It is a peripheral nice-to-have. In a previous blog we discussed how it is currently an infeasible nice-to-have. Let's talk about doing without it.