Due to the complex and interconnected nature of the IT environment, even simple changes, if they fail, can seriously affect organizations. And with business increasingly dependent on IT, the failures ...

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 ...

The IT Infrastructure Library, a set of management best practices that has long been popular in Europe, finally is starting to make waves in the U.S. The IT Infrastructure Library, a set of management ...

Pressures to decrease cost, increase reliability, and comply with local regulations conspire to make it harder than ever for IT to deliver business services efficiently. We are fast approaching the ...

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), a set of best practices in IT management, is helping companies align IT with their larger business objectives, according to a recent survey by ...

What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to ...

CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, is using IT service management (ITSM) to support operations outside the IT function. Reinoud Martens, service manager at CERN, has been taking the IT out ...