Configuration management is one of the few processes that overarch all other process and service lifecycle phases in ITIL V3. Wthout it, the effectiveness of the rest of your processes will be in ...

Network management is a complex topic. In today's diverse networking infrastructure, the network has to handle more instances of unified communications, video, and virtualization. The role of the ...

With the excitement of a new version of ITIL (IT infrastructure library), there should be a resurgence of interest in ITSM (IT service management) as well. IT service management (ITSM) is nothing new.

IT can no longer deliver services based on technology fiefdoms or silos as it has in the past. This practice is dead. Organizations that refuse to accept it will either dissolve, get outsourced, or ...

Large enterprise companies that need guaranteed high performance and scalability for their service management applications might want to consider StreamFoundry’s software suite that addresses several ...

As public and private organizations embrace new industry standards and technologies, such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library version 3 (ITIL v3) and configuration management databases ...

A 44-volume set of guidelines published by the British government 12 years ago may forever change the way IT is managed In the 1970s, when the American auto industry found itself under attack by ...

It’s been nearly a year since Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) came out. The update to ITIL, a framework for best practices in IT service delivery, was intended to sharpen its focus ...

A survey released last week shows two-thirds of some 80 companies that have deployed an IT Infrastructure Library say they feel the process changes are delivering IT performance improvements, but most ...