| | March 20176CIOReviewCopyright © 2017 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewMARCH - 09 - 2017Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 MARCH - 09 - 2017, Vol 06 SE 23 - Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALCIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesAaron PierceJasmin Allic Sarah Fernandes Ava GarciaJem ElizabethVian IsaacLawrence Tselawrence@cioreview.comT: 510.565.7628VisualizersDavid Brown JrManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeEditorialK. Manoj KumarTo "configure" an effective change in the development of a product or software is highly critical for organizations. This, coupled with the ability to provide greater agility and faster problem resolution forms the base of the modern day Configuration Management (CM). And a change is already taking place. Today's CM tools are effectively addressing issues involved in installation, configuration, and execution of configuration items--called artifacts involved in software CM--on servers. Unlike traditional CM tools that required system administrators to write scripts and hand-maintain files--that lists technical endpoints, port numbers, and namespaces--the increased infrastructure automation is currently transforming Enterprise CM or E-CM landscape to manage business goals in a strategic manner. This invites an API-driven approach to CM, which implements a centralized CM server that can control all of the nodes programmatically, and considerably reduce the workload of the system administrators. As the complexity of the IT system increases, E-CM is taking a highly systematic approach, which demands accurate configuration information in place to identify, control, record, report, audit, and verify configuration items. IT is highly investing in cloud CM solutions to receive this essential cloud configuration information on an ongoing basis and to monitor the configuration items in real-time.Apart from implementing a custom, fully-fledged configuration management solution to eliminate manual and time-consuming tasks related to maintaining the hardware and software, companies are looking for superior capabilities that can drive a successful CM implementation. As an integral feature, many of the configuration management tools are starting to integrate basic orchestration capabilitiesthat allow them to "configure" VM, devices, or applications robustly. Also, with advanced traits like asset discovery, automated backup, self-healing functionality, data synchronization, security and virtualization, CM tools today are distinctly "changing" the face of the system engineering process. In this edition of CIOReview, we are featuring the 20 Most Promising Configuration Management Solution Providers 2017. We hope this information will help you with your product development strategies and achieve profitability in the long run. Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comA Highly Systematic Approach
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