Asset management is rightly placed at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library's (ITIL) management philosophy. The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) has recently reported the majority of businesses in the UK still fail to understand the...
The Incident Manager also provides guidance to system administrators based on information from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University and the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security...
Most IT and business managers talk to us about high-calibre project managers in terms of the experience and skills they've learnt over many years - not which time recording package they know. Also used in IT project management is the IT...
In fact, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - a cohesive set of best practices supported by training and implementation tools - is completely bound up with the modern approach to service management.
One good starting place for guidance on proper processes to manage software assets is the relevant parts of the IT Infrastructure Library (Itil) documentation. The ISO 19770-1 standard was ratified in May and includes guidance on how to develop a...
Examples of best practice amongst leading edge adopters include IT infrastructure library (Itil), service desks, asset and configuration management tools, IT portfolio management tools and business service management performance monitoring...