• The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down one part of the controversial Sarbanes-Oxley Act, ruling that Congress overstepped its authority when establishing the Public Company Accounting ...

  • Today’s overriding business environment is one of ‘do more, with less’. And that means when it comes to IT Service Management and IT Asset Management costs everyone wants a clearer picture of ...

  • According to Dale Vile, a major issue with the cloud is that when you put all the hype, assumptions and conflicting ideas together, the end result is market confusion.

    To illustrate ...

  • ITIL, Six Sigma, Lean, TQM, Agile Development, Scrum, XP, APM, PMBOK, strategy maps, and portfolio management: the list goes on and on. How does anyone make sense of all the management mantras? ...

  • The vendor coalition consisting of VMware, Cisco, and EMC launches an IT-as-a-service product, Vblock,  with a compelling support structure. Where some see as a marketing ploy, others ...

  • Jan van Bon analyses the difference between functions and processes, in the book IT Service Management, Global Best Practices, Volume I (2008). This difference explains to a high degree why so ...
  • The most important effort is to make sure the operations side of your house remains in order. Most infrastructure & operations departments are pretty good at focusing on operational ...

  • The company has launched a cloud-based service that is designed to host entire IT infrastructure deployments.

    Infrastructure-as-a-Service combines Fujitsu's own server platforms with ...

  • IT infrastructure may be up 99.2% of the time, but that does not mean your system is doing what it is supposed to in terms of delivering what the business and customers expect and ...

  • "How can I say that ITIL’s success may result in a backlash against ITSM? Because I believe that ITIL is turning its back on the past. This public domain collection of best practices built by ...