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The most common breakdown is not missing tooling. It is teams making decisions from records that no longer match the rack.
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When the CMDB drifts from physical reality, every downstream decision built on it becomes less reliable - and the cost compounds across every operational workflow.
Read the articleof enterprise CMDB records no longer match what is physically in the rack.
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