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 growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many organizations are ...

ITIL: What goes in a Configuration Management Plan? Your email has been sent Configuration management is one of the few processes that overarch all other process and service lifecycle phases in ITIL ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the rise of anything good – and the inevitable industry hype that accompanies it – there can be potential dangers. Understanding ITIL means taking a realistic look at what it is and what it ...

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.

If you’ve done your research into current IT certifications, you’ll see that Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL, is near the top of many lists. ITIL methods are designed to help ...

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of best practices for improving and aligning IT services to business needs. ITIL processes provide various key performance indicators ...