Emc Corporation

Mark Venguerov

Jeffrey Mark Nick

David Stephen Reiner

Stephen Glen Graham

Thomas R Maguire

John D Hushon, Jr

Jurgen Leschner

Cornelia R Davis

A configuration management database system includes a plurality of configuration items. Each of the configuration items includes at least one property relating to a component of an IT system. The system also includes a plurality of intensional category definitions that provide dynamic categorization of the plurality of information items. Each of the intensional category definitions includes a predicate that is operable to identify an input one of the configuration items as a member of the category based on the at least one property in the input one of the configuration items. The configuration management database system also includes at least one pre-computed category membership data structure to support efficient processing of at least one query.

Using intensional category assignment for a configuration management database

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Westmount, Canada

Mark Venguerov