SSL Certificate Management
Today, we will focus on highlighting four important ways Device42’s certificate management software eases your SSL certificate lifecycle management burden. Using our SSL cert manager, you will always...
View ArticleVisualize your SCCM data with the Device42 SCCM Integration
We recently released an integration with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager in v10.1.1 of the Device42 auto-discovery tool. If you are already using SCCM in your environment or are planning...
View ArticleData Center Capacity Management
The dynamic nature of business today continues to place challenging demands on the modern data center. Data center capacity management has classically been a pain point, and continues to be… read more...
View ArticleDevice42 History and Milestones: Celebrating 5 Years Since Release
Device42 History: Inception The Device42 team is celebrating the 5 year anniversary of the initial release of Device42. The last half decade has been a fun journey as the product… read more →The post...
View ArticleBringing Together Asset Management & Software Security
Every single server is running 100 pieces of software, each of which might have security vulnerabilities! You have a lot of servers to manage, and every single server is running… read more →The post...
View ArticleKnow What’s Impacted When The Plug Gets Pulled: What we can learn from...
In 2016, a thunderstrike from Thor – let alone a “power outage” or a “router failure” should not be enough to bring one of the world’s largest companies to its… read more →The post Know What’s Impacted...
View ArticleIs your IT infrastructure ready for hit by the bus factor?
We recently did a survey of our sysadmin friends, and found that 60% of folks are using Excel and about 15% are using their heads to manage the state of… read more →The post Is your IT infrastructure...
View ArticleDevOps vs SRE — or should you run your infrastructure like FANG?
TL;DR: No shortage of articles & opinions on modeling your infrastructure after FANG, DevOps vs SRE; but we believe that isn’t the right question. We think you must first figure… read more →The...
View ArticleAutomating a workflow with Device42’s continuous discovery and StackStorm
tl;dr – This is a quick post to demonstrate the power of Device42’s webhooks. Here we show you how you can utilize events in Device42 to drive creation of JIRA… read more →
View ArticleITAM vs. CMDB —The next generation data center relies on more than just...
What is the difference between an IT Asset Management (ITAM) product and a modern CMDB product like Device42? What features are you missing if you choose an ITAM product, or… read more →
View ArticleApplication Discovery and Mapping: Alternative Methodologies and Device42...
An Application Dependency Map illustrates how software, services, and applications interact both with one another and with the physical, virtual, and cloud servers and the network components that...
View ArticleDevice42 SAM Module vs. Standalone SAM Software
Many customers ask us whether or not they should buy a standalone Software Asset Management (SAM) system or purchase the Device42 Software License Management add-on. The Device42 SLM add-on offer… read...
View ArticleEffortlessly generate code that talks to Device42’s RESTful APIs
Let Postman generate code for Device42 API calls in the language of your choice. Have you been coding for a while now, but never written an application that speaks… read more →
View ArticleEnd of Life & End of Support Tracking with Device42
End of Life & End of Support Tracking with Device42 for Hardware, Software and Operating Systems The software and hardware products that you rely on to power your business have… read more →
View ArticleAutomatic Asset Tracking in your Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Agile IT Means Fast Paced Change With modern DevOps teams executing upwards of 100s of deployments a day, there is a constant flow of new IT information generated that needs to be tracked. This...
View ArticleInfrastructure Technical Debt
“Technical Debt” – What is it? Like credit card debt, technical debt describes the causes and the associated ‘costs’ (both in time and money) of missing and/or outdated IT infrastructure documentation...
View ArticleDevice42’s Guide to Migration Project Planning Part 5: Decommissioning the...
Introduction In this fifth and final entry in Device42’s Ultimate Guide to migration, we’ll cover your post-migration work. This work mainly comprises the decommissioning of your old datacenter and any...
View ArticleIs it Time to Consolidate Your Data Center Hardware?
Over the last few years, data centers have been expanding at an absolutely frantic rate. Global data production is expected to hit 175 zettabytes by 2025. All of that data has got to go somewhere, and...
View ArticleMoving Workloads Beyond Lift and Shift
“Lift and shift” migrations have been praised for their simplicity, but there’s always a catch. Without careful forethought, you’ll find that your newly cloud-based application isn’t optimized for its...
View ArticleAIOps: A better way to DevOps?
The DevOps philosophy was supposed to take the world by storm. Although the concept itself is popular, many companies appear to have failed on execution. According to the 2018 State of DevOps report...
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