Sept 2011: Reading, UK -Northgate Information Services has been awarded a seven year IT managed service contract by Reading Borough Council, worth £75.6 million ($121.8m).   Building on the success of a previous contract that is due to expire this year, Northgate will provide IT services…

ITIL and Internal Revenue Service (IRS)Â -ÂAudit findings   USA: The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has recently published its audit findings regarding ITIL Event Management, Incident Management, and Problem Management initiatives at Service Operations Command Center Branch (SOCCB).   SOCCB…

Texas, August 2011. Business process reengineering events have been utilized to refine internal processes and improve the ability to provide comprehensive information technology services to Headquarters Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff Manpower, Personnel and Services, Air Force Personnel Center, Air Force Services Agency, Air Force Manpower Agency…

The recentÂITIL 2011 improvements came about following the information collected from the ITIL community as they used the Core Publications.   As one might expect, best practice strives for continual improvement andÂthis means a change control log is available to capture such improvements. The log can be found…

Melco Crown Entertainment Limited, a developer and owner of casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities focused on the Macau market in China - often referred to as 'The Las Vegas of the East', has achieved ISO/IEC 20000 certification for IT Service Management System.   The ISO/IEC…

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC), who are the owners of ITIL and Prince2 amongst other products, has been brought under the control of the UK Government Cabinet Office and are now part of the Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG).   The move brings together in…

As the economy finally starts to look up, cloud adoption has become inevitable, according to writer Roy Wang in a recentÂForbes blog post. Businesses of all sizes are no longer trying to decide when to embrace cloud computing, they are now planning how to most effectively do so. In fact,…

Fox IT has partnered with VMware to take IT Service Management (ITSM) into 'the cloud'.   ITSM 2.0 is a new ITSM framework that has been designed to help organizations manage their IT functions in this shift, covering and integrating both on-premise and cloud infrastructures. ITSM…

March 2011 - UK Telecommunications sector: The 2010 merger of 'Orange' and 'T-Mobile' that resulted in the companies being re-branded as 'Everything, Everywhere' is outsourcing its IT to 'T-Systems' in a seven year contract that has been speculated to be worth an estimated £700m.   The…

by Sumit Kumar Jha   Abstract   Cloud Computing is the buzzword in IT industry today. Whether it be a service provider or a customer organization, everyone is looking forward to embrace cloud computing and benefit from it. But a common concern…