Archive for November, 2007

HP Offers New Suite of IT Automation Tools

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Automated Operations 1.0 combines solutions for IT service management, business service management, and business service automation. "We have been aggressively expanding our software portfolio in the last two years to broaden and deepen ... (more)

Half Price Books selects Hornbill’s Supportworks for Service …

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

SourceWire (press release) - London,UK Half Price Books, a leading US bookstore chain, has invested in Supportworks ITSM, a comprehensive service desk management system from Hornbill Systems. ... (more)

HP Offers Suite of Automation Tools

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA Automated Operations 1.0 combines solutions for IT service management, business service management, and business service automation. ... (more)

Vettro Customers - Carilion and Mac-Gray Receive infoworld 100 Award

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

TMCnet - USA The company was honored for its solutions that offer mobile connectivity for IT service management. Carilion had launched an initiative to improve the ... (more)

ServiceDesk Plus :: Merging Requests

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

We are using the merge requests to manage mulitple incidents that are part of the same problem (we have used ITIL terminology in our categories), so, if we have a major issue that may affect many users ie VPN or Server is down we log ... (more)

JOBS: Job Posting - Senior System Solution and Support Specialist

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Recommend, evaluate, architect, and implement methodologies such as ITIL, CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and Enterprise Architecture within the Systems Support group and the IT department. Develop, implement, and manage change ... (more)

Stupid Exam!

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

By ~* w|sh|n *~(~* w|sh|n *~)Information Technology Infrastructure Library it stands for... the student guide is like don't know few thousand pages?or maybe just around 1.5k?Not sure, it is thick enuff to be a paper weight. 26/40 marks is required to pass. ... (more)

Unisys Chooses Enigmatec Technology for Solutions to Enhance Real …

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... and achieve automated management of workflows that meets the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standard for delivery of IT services. ... (more)

The Rising Wave of Enterprise IT Certifications

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

By t.dumoulin@pinkelephant.com(t.dumoulin@pinkelephant.com)If you look at their statistics, interest and growth in ITIL certification more than doubled starting in 2005 from the previous yearly trends (coincidentally the same time period when these three drivers began to kick in). ... (more)

Enigmatec collaborates with Atos Origin for Run Book Automation

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Computer Business Review - UK It was also found that the offering had automated the IT processes and integrated ITIL processes across both virtual machines and legacy systems. ... (more)

Tripwire Whitepaper: IT Service Management Metrics that Matter

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

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HP aims to automate routine IT operations

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA HP Automated Operations 1.0 software suite is itself split into three main applications: IT Service Management, Business Service Management, and Business ... (more)

HP aims to automate routine IT operations

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

By prolink(prolink)HP Automated Operations 1.0 software suite is itself split into three main applications: IT Service Management, Business Service Management, and Business Service Automation. The suite is the fruit of HP's aggressive acquisition strategy ... (more)

Bridgestone Firestone selects TechExcel’s ALM and ITSM solutions

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

TechExcel, a provider of unified application lifecycle management and support software, has announced that Bridgestone Firestone Off Road Tire Company has selected its ALM and ITSM solutions to help increase performance and improve ... (more)

Careeracademy - IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Training …

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

By Xcross87Video Training Information:. Code:. http://www.careeracademy.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=126. Download: Links in total: 4 parts File size: 220 MB Password:. Code:. Xcross87. this part of youre post is hidden ... (more)

Parity reveals a significant lack of business skills among IT managers

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA Parity Group are leaders in IT Service Management and Programme and Project Management training and consulting and were one of the original founders of ... (more)

EMC Announces Acquisition Of Voyence

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Data Storage Connection (press release) - USA The acquisition complements and extends EMC's position in the rapidly-emerging IT Service Management marketplace. The agreement immediately advances EMC's ... (more)

Proving CMDB Value through “Scenario Planning”

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

I subscribe to a notion that my blogging colleague Marv Waschke recently wrote about in his Iterating on IT Service blog posting entitled "ITIL v3: Simplifying Complexity." That is that implying that something inherently complex is simp ... (more)

Bringing ITIL Home for the Holidays

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

By Robert StroudI've decided to use the upcoming holiday season to launch an ITIL initiative in my home. With all the time I spend evangelizing on ITIL, it is only natural that it has crossed over from my business life to my personal life. ... (more)

Five reasons ITIL Version 3 is not “Best Practice”

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Over a year ago, the IT Skeptic argued that ITIL is not best practice. Now Version 3 is upon us, has anything changed? (more)