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 ...

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 ...

Public-sector CIOs are taking notice of the rapid rate at which private industry is adopting IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. The latest set of best practices, known as ITIL V3, with ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's the question recently put forth by Gareth Daine, who quizzed some 25 industry experts and observers on whether the two methodologies clash, or are compatible. ITIL, originally known as ...

Lately, the best practice guidelines of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) have started to wash up on North American shores. And, increasingly, analysts are attempting to make the link between ITIL and ...

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