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 ...

With the excitement of a new version of ITIL (IT infrastructure library), there should be a resurgence of interest in ITSM (IT service management) as well. IT service management (ITSM) is nothing new.

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 ...

ITIL, the IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework, has come on in leaps and bounds since it was first introduced due to theUK government’s disillusionment with the way that governmental ...

ITIL is an acronym that some CIOs don’t understand well. If they’re aware of the IT Infrastructure Library, it’s in the context of two of the library’s books that provide guidance on improving help ...

Help desk operations are no small matter at JPMorgan Chase, which runs seven sites that handle some 3 million IT service calls per year. Following its 2004 merger with Bank One and the end of its $5 ...

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 ...

Developers of the IT Infrastructure Library plan to publicly release on May 30 the second large revision of the best practice framework. Here are some questions and answers to help explain the role ...