WHITE PAPER - This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Enterprise | Hardware | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Systems Development Life-cycles | Systems Management Software

SOFTWARE DEMO - Looking to improve service quality? HP has the most comprehensive ITSM solution in the industry. By aligning services, software, education, and hardware around service management, HP is able to deliver a complete and comprehensive I...
Posted: November 6, 2008 | Published: November 6, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Hardware | IT Service Management | ITIL | QOS | Service Level Management | Software

SOFTWARE DEMO - Constantly changing business needs leads to constant changes to an organization's IT environment. Read this paper to learn how to build business-centric change, control and release management processes in your business
Posted: June 13, 2007 | Published: June 13, 2007


Topics:  Change Management | CMDB | ITIL | Network Configuration Management | Network Performance Management Software

WHITE PAPER - To meet the increasing pressures of high availability and performance requirements, many IT groups are adopting IT Service Management ITSM, and change and configuration management CCM strategies. This paper lays out successful approaches.
Posted: February 27, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | CMDB | Configuration Management | Disaster Recovery | ESB | IT Service Management | ITIL | Network Management | Software Maintenance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the benefits associated with ITIL. Discover how ITIL can be used to integrate data to provide a comprehensive cross-tier representation for IT services.
Posted: February 27, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Change Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Services | ITIL | Security Management | Software Testing | Software Upgrades

WHITE PAPER - ITIL provides frameworks for both the organization of ITSM and a cohesive set of best practices. Read this paper to learn how your organization can improve service support, reduce complexity and overcome limited budgets and increased customer demands.
Posted: August 1, 2007 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | Change Management | Configuration Management | Customer Service Best Practices | IT Service Management | ITIL

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes critical steps IT executives must take to prepare for change and manage an ITSM implementation to maximize its value and ensure that it achieves the full transformational effect it is capable of delivering.
Posted: December 1, 2008 | Published: November 26, 2008


Topics:  Business Processes | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | ITIL | ROI

WHITE PAPER - This paper details an approach to significant and lasting improvements in service management outcomes also to provide IT organizations with help in establishing and running formal continual improvement programs as well as in executing operational ITSM.
Posted: February 7, 2007 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | CMDB | Cost Benefit Analysis | IT Best Practices | IT Service Centers | IT Service Management | ITIL | ROI | Service Level Management | SLA | SLA Management Services

WEBCAST - CMDB is not a silver bullet for managing application complexity-so, how do you prevent garbage-in garbage-out? This webcast uses real-life examples to show you how to create a solid, unified foundation that supports dependency mapping.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Premiered: September 24, 2008


Topics:  CMDB | IT Service Management | ITIL | SLA | SLA Management Services | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Interested in ITIL v3 but not sure how to start? ITIL v3 best practices define how IT can better organize itself to understand and meet business needs, from strategy to operations and ongoing improvement.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Service Management Software | IT Service Management | ITIL | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This IDC white paper highlights the benefits of IT business service automation (BSA) and how it is driving business initiatives such as compliance management, lower operation costs and higher business service availability.
Posted: April 25, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Performance Management Software | Availability | Business Processes | Compliance Management Software | ITIL | Systems Management

ANALYST REPORT - This Forrester research brief reviews the strengths and weaknesses of top service desk management tool vendors like HP, CA, IBM, and BMC.
Posted: April 25, 2008 | Published: April 7, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Change Management | Help Desk Software | ITIL | Service Desk Management | Vendors