These days everyone seems to be defined as a customer. Indeed, it`s the one thing that unites a bank account-holder, an online shopper and even an end-user of a corporate IT system. And the one thing ...

Every now and then, there's discussion about the differences and similarities between service oriented architecture and Agile development methodologies. Intuitively, they seem to have the same modus ...

Growing up in a rural area meant that you often picked up local “idioms” as part of your language. Words such as ain’t, if’n and y’all were part of my everyday speech. One of my local idioms was ...

Over the last two decades, ITIL has become the de-facto industry standard for managing IT services. IT service management tools and processes were developed and implemented to execute ITIL standards.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Pressures to decrease cost, increase reliability, and comply with local regulations conspire to make it harder than ever for IT to deliver business services efficiently. We are fast approaching the ...

Half the battle with properly managing IT infrastructure and applications is adhering to best practices. The other half? Putting technology in place to automate, monitor and speed problem resolution.

CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, is using IT service management (ITSM) to support operations outside the IT function. Reinoud Martens, service manager at CERN, has been taking the IT out ...

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Back in the 1980s, the UK government was frustrated with the poor performance of its IT. Plus ca change. To address this, it developed its own set of rules for managing IT. Those rules espoused the ...