Symantec Management Platform (formerly Altiris Platform) Overview

Thanks.... We want to implement Altiris in our network.... 
I am attending training on Altiris.... this may help... 

Great Introduction. We need more videos like this.  Practical, Hands-on-it, and scripting for developers.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DATABASE

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management_database

But I like a lot also your definition: "Common Management Database" :)

Any way, in ITIL v3, it is renamed 'CMS', for "Configuration Management System", because they are thinking not possible to get one database for all this stuff !!!

Just an Altiris guys should join the ITSMF, to show them it is possible ;-P

Of course, CMS is not a good name for Altiris people, so we will keep CMDB. After all, Altiris is perhaps the single vendor being able to build a full DMTF/ITIL 'CMS' single Database, with full & true CI inheritance capabilities.

Well, need a strong SQL, with 5 to 6 quick disk, big memory, dedicated, ... Seems also some SQL guru guys should also join the Altiris team, to make some reviews most the SQL code running a NS :(