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		<title>Continual Improvement: Data Discrepancies in your CMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your service improvement program depends on knowing what's in your environment, it's hard to be effective without an accurate CMS.  Gain some insights on how to address this potentially costly problem.]]></description>
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		<title>A-FIRM Structure Configuration Management</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=226</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITIL V3 incorporates emerging best practices for a Configuration Management System (CMS) modeled upon a federated set of Configuration Management Databases (CMDB). For most IT shops that may seem a very daunting obstacle to surmount. But, by looking beyond the task at hand, we can find guidance in several places – including architectural systems, automotive designers, and even mountain-climbing expeditions.]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Blog Series Part 2: Manual vs Technology</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=211</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are various topics for which this discussion regularly comes up, however the arguments for and against do not drastically change. In regards to the Configuration Management System (CMS) or CMDB, the topics tend to be with respect to;

Initial Population
Regular Updates
Verification of updates
Periodic Audit of system

As mentioned, the reason for contemplating one or the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Blog Series &#8211; Part 1: Auto Discovery</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=175</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CMDB / CMS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CMDB and CMS are widely misunderstood and the use of Auto-discovery in their solutions are even more so. In order to deliver a sound long lasting solution, all CMS implementations will need to use some level of Auto-Discovery in the future.]]></description>
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		<title>CMDB Blog Topic Series: Goodbye CMDB hello CMS!</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=165</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITIL practitioners hate the term CMDB. We hate it because it connotes an incorrect perception about how the CMDB should be built and used. Of course, this begs the question of why we chose to write a book about something we hate. We love the concept, we just hate the name.]]></description>
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		<title>The CMDB Blog topic votes are in&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=149</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone,
First, I&#8217;d like to thank all of you for participating in the poll.  More than 100 of you provided input as to what topics you felt were most important to you on issue of the CMS ( aka CMDB ).
The poll closed the other day and the results are:

17%  -  Auto Discovery
16%  -  Federation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release: Second &#8220;Industry Knowledge Contribution&#8221; nomination received</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=129</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[K2 Solutions Group, Inc. Founder and President receives his second itSMF USA  &#8220;Industry Knowledge Contribution&#8221; nomination


Providence, RI – September 16, 2009 – K2 Solutions Group, Inc. (http://www.k2sg.com) proudly announces that its founder and president, Carlos Casanova, has received a second ‘Industry Knowledge Contribution&#8217; award nomination from the IT Service Management Forum USA (itSMF USA) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release: &#8220;Industry Knowledge Contribution&#8221; nomination</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=115</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[K2 Solutions Group, Inc. Founder and President receives itSMF USA
&#8220;Industry Knowledge Contribution&#8221; nomination


September 10 &#8211; Providence, RI – K2 Solutions Group, Inc. ( http://www.k2sg.com ) proudly announces its founder and president, Carlos Casanova, has been nominated along with Glenn O’Donnell a Senior Analyst from Forrester Research (http://www.forrester.com/rb/analyst/glenn_donnell ) by the IT Service Management Forum USA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMDB/CMS Blog Series: Seeking Topics</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=100</link>
		<comments>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=100#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CMDB / CMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone,
I&#8217;ve been planning out a series of blog postings for the coming months around the CMDB/CMS. There have been many very interesting discussions on LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and periodicals recently so  I thought that it would be worthwhile to develop a comprehensive series of blog postings that address the topics that interested all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMDB Open Source solutions</title>
		<link>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=80</link>
		<comments>http://blog.k2sg.com/?p=80#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Casanova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CMDB Imperative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMDB]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry was originally posted on: The Imperative Blog
Hi folks,
In one of my Twitter exchanges, someone asked for a list of Open Source ITSM solutions. What I had available was a list I gathered over the years that targeted CMDB versus general ITSM.
I can’t speak to how good/bad these sites are since I gathered [...]]]></description>
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