Reliable change and configuration management is going to be problem of the near future. So, sooner companies start taking a look at their configuration management strategy, better placed are they to manage their support/maintenance workforce, stress, and money above all related with configuration management problem.

Is this really hard to do? I believe no. Yes, it would have looked a wild and vague idea a couple of years before, but a responsible company could just not afford to ignore the problem of configuration management. This problem would sooner become a monster one as we are really forced to increase our IT infrastructure due to effectiveness in managing increased customer demands.

IT management is mostly about managing configuration, configuration of PC boxes, i.e.e, Host.

Host management is something that one would want to start thinking about when planning for change and configuration management. Host management is managing host consisting of operating systems, and various software applications. So, I believe Host management would start with managing operating systems and then moving to managing software applications such as databases, application servers, web servers, enterprise applications etc. Large companies have already started evaluating companies working on change and configuration management tool.