Posts Tagged ‘IT’

According to Forrester’s latest research, IT spending is expected to grow 6.6 percent in 2010 to $568 billion. In order to realize the value of these investments, organizations may adopt industry-consistent frameworks like ITIL to improve IT process and establish reliable data points to measure success.
Here are 5 useful ITIL implementation tips:
ITIL is an IT-Wide [...]


People have the tendency to judge a software its user interface (UI).
Think about it. Most users probably don’t care about your network protocols or what your server topology is. Those users will, however, think it’s awesome to drag and drop documents and pictures from location to location. Most folks are used to this since most [...]


Australian-based Atlassian debuts JIRA 4 today, October 6.
Atlassian first debuted JIRA in 2003 as an innovative issue tracking and project management software. As we mentioned in our previous blog JIRA – Complexity Made Simple, JIRA is a huge asset in enterprise collaboration. It’s completely permission/Java/web-based, highly customizable, and amazingly simple to use.
The key news about [...]


Just what is a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)?
For starters, it’s not a database—or, rather, not merely a database. A CMDB is a virtual warehouse holding information from every knook and cranny of an information system. CMDBs show which system components are needed to create efficient business processes. It can be seen as both an encyclopedia [...]


ITIL’s Release Management process bears a striking resemblance to ITIL Change Management—in fact, one could fairly consider Release Management to be a directly supportive process to Change Management. Release Management focuses on the practical need for organized coordination in the change process. It’s meant to ensure that changes are implemented in accordance to business needs [...]