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…

January 2011: Carlsberg, the producer of about 40 billion bottles of beer per year, have awarded a five year ITIL orientated contract to Accenture to deliver application services to the European operations, in support of the "Business Standardisation Programme" (BSP).   Accenture will support a range…

The owners of ITIL, Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in the UK have stated that a public review of the updated ITIL V3 core publications has been very positive.   Currently a second public quality assurance review is being undertaken, after which the authors will refine…

Eighty percent of IT Service Management and ITIL programs and projects have failed to meet their objectives and are deemed a failure by the sponsor. Despite the high-profile success of ITSM and ITIL projects in organizations like Proctor & Gamble and BMO Financial, most ITSM projects will fail. This is…

British Petroleum (BP) International have signed a five year $400 million outsourcing services agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP).   HP will be utilizing services that are aligned to ITIL v3 to support BP. It is envisaged that BP will benefit from improved information management by aligning information…

12th December 2010   During the current tough global economy the municipal organization of The City of Kirkland, Washington has selected the ITSM solution provider, Axios Systems, and its ITSM software product assyst to support and mature its ITIL processes.   www.axiossystems.co.uk

When it comes to IT Service Management few would argue that ITIL has become the deFacto standard for defining processes.  But would it surprise you to learn that you can become ITIL certified right up to the "expert level" without ever learning how to effectively design a process?…