With internal auditors breathing down their necks over compliance and security issues, many large companies are eager for help organizing IT operations infrastructure. That helps explain the ...

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 ...

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As a standards framework for IT services management (ITSM), the IT infrastructure library (ITIL) continues to be useful and beneficial for companies. However, it needs to be updated with more ...

CIOs have a new mandate from CEOs: Accelerate innovation and growth as a business-driven thought leader rather than a caretaker of technology. This paradigm shift requires changes in how IT teams work ...

The ITIL framework – the acronym being retained from its former description of Information Technology Infrastructure Library – is focused on aligning IT services with the needs of businesses, ...

Know the ITIL framework’s essential ideas, principles, and procedures. To be good at managing IT services, you should study the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service lifecycle and its five phases: ...

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 ...

The Medical University of South Carolina was charged recently by its leadership and state leaders to expand its telehealth portfolio and rapidly develop new services. That goal was helped along by ...

Meta Group's weekly Client Advisor newsletter (client registration required) comments on ITIL progress in the US: The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process framework, specifically the IT Service ...