Alex Hernandez | September 2008 | 0 Comments
Service Operation is all about orchestrating and executing the day-to-day management and support of services. Service Operation makes the service real and starts providing value to the organization and its customers.
“You can have the best architected service designs, plans and processes, but they are of no value if you are not able to execute and […]
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Alex Hernandez | February 2008 | 0 Comments
Alex Hernandez | August 2007 | 0 Comments
If your company has already started to implement IT Service Management using the ITIL version 2.0 framework, will the new ITIL 3.0 require your organization to rework all your current IT Service Management efforts?
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Roundup Article | May 2007 | 0 Comments
Roundup Article | May 2007 | 0 Comments
Roundup Article | May 2007 | 0 Comments
Kia Behnia | September 2006 | 0 Comments
What’s the best way to approach change for the data center? Kia Behnia, CTO for Change and Configuration Management Solutions (CCM) at BMC Software outlines the basic steps for replacing outmoded manual change activities with streamlined, automated processes based on proven best practices.
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Whitepaper | May 2006 | 0 Comments
Katherine Chalmers | May 2006 | 0 Comments
Whether it’s called Business Service Management (BSM) or end-to-end IT Service Management (ITSM), the new IT management imperative is understanding how the health of individual components within a service’s ecosystem - servers, routers, firewalls, applications, databases, etc. - relates to the user’s overall quality of service (QoS) experience and the company’s business requirements. At BSM Digest, we’ve taken a vendor-neutral approach to the problem and adapted a simple seven-step framework.

Step 1: Inventory
Step 2: Instrument
Step 3: Model
Step 4: Analyze
Step 5: Visualize
Step 6: Troubleshoot
Step 7: Plan
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Mary Nugent | March 2006 | 0 Comments
Not too many years ago, IT service management was about managing devices — computers, data storage devices, and other associated equipment — and these devices were typically confined within the walls of data centers. As devices were combined into distributed IT infrastructures that extended well beyond data center walls, IT professionals had to raise the bar. As a result, IT service management evolved from managing devices to managing the infrastructure based on the physical and logical interdependencies of the infrastructure components, including databases, application servers, Web servers, mail servers, gateways, applications, and hosting computers.
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Peter Goldin | January 2006 | 0 Comments
Looking back, the emergence of business service management (BSM) seems inevitable. This new generation of tools helps IT organizations manage technology infrastructures within the context of the key services they provide for their customers. BSM tools are critical enablers for the increasingly popular process-focused IT Service Management (ITSM) approach.
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