Archive for September, 2008
IT departments primarily have been self-contained entities that were focused strictly on running operating systems, mainframes, and min-computers, fixing desktop computers and maintaining other IT equipment, or developing in-house software. The ITIL discipline - Planning To Implement Service Management attempts to provide practitioners with a framework for the alignment of business needs and IT provision […]
September 27th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
IT Service Continuity Management helps to ensure the availability and rapid restoration of IT services in the event of a disaster. On July 20, 2006, the OGC signed a contract with the APM Group to be its commercial partner for ITIL accreditation from January 1, 2007.The process dictates how the end of the stage should […]
September 26th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The ITIL discipline - Planning To Implement Service Management attempts to provide practitioners with a framework for the alignment of business needs and IT provision requirements. ITIL has been criticized on several fronts.ICT Operations Management provides the day-to-day technical supervision of the ICT infrastructure. ICT Technical Support is the specialist technical function for infrastructure within […]
September 25th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL s terminology separates CM. Configuration Management from Change Management and Deployment etc. This typically differs from the more holistic definition that exists within the software community. The names ITIL and IT Infrastructure Library are registered trademarks of the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC).PRINCE2 is a structured approach to project management. Communication: keeping […]
September 24th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
It includes the necessary combination of Business (and overall IS) strategy, with technical design and architecture. The current move towards ISO/IEC 27001 may require some revision to the ITIL Security Management best practices which are often claimed to be rich in content for physical security but weak in areas such as software/application security and logical […]
September 17th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL Small-Scale Implementation provides an approach to the implementation of the ITIL framework for those with smaller IT units or departments. The IT Infrastructure Library consists of a series of publications that describe a framework for delivering and managing IT services.ITSM represents a structured approach to how an IT organization goes about planning for, developing, […]
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Smaller organizations that cannot justify a full ITIL program and materials can gain insight into ITIL from a review of the Microsoft Operations Framework which is based on ITIL but defines a more limited implementation. Although ITIL was originally created by the CCTA, a UK Government agency. it is now being adopted and used across […]
September 7th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Configuration management, when used strictly for software development, is called Software Configuration Management (SCM). The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and techniques for managing information technology (IT) infrastructure, development, and operations.To a business, customers and users are the entry point to the process model. The most current revision of PRINCE2 […]
September 6th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
It includes many project management disciplines in common with PRINCE2, but has a broader focus to include the necessary integration of Release Management and both functional and non functional testing. ITIL v3, published in May 2007, comprises 5 key volumes.ICT Technical Support is the specialist technical function for infrastructure within ICT. There is just one […]
September 4th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Although ITIL was originally defined in the UK, ITIL is becoming the defacto global standard for ITSM and has strong support in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Although ITIL was originally created by the CCTA, a UK Government agency. it is now being adopted and used across the world as the defacto standard for […]
September 2nd, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments