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 ...

The IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL, turns 20 this year after launching in 1989 in the U.K. Now American IT departments and vendors embrace the best practice import. IT management practitioners ...

The Art of Service today announced it has become one of the first organizations to receive worldwide accreditation for a new integrated ITIL® certification course that will enable practitioners to ...

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 ...

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.

As the ITSM sector has evolved, ITIL framework has become universally accepted as the best way to ensure ITSM tools are implemented in a manner that delivers immediate value, while also ensuring that ...

What is ITSM (IT service management)? Your email has been sent This ITSM guide covers how IT service management evolved from ITIL, along with an overview of the ITIL life cycle and the many IT service ...

David Cannon, IT service management practice principal at HP and co-author of the Service Operation book in ITIL v3, says that to the extent v2 talked at all about return on investment, it was always ...

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 ...