It’s System Administrator Appreciation Day at the end of the month (July 28th to be specific), hooray for SysAdmins! It’s great that we get a day to celebrate our awesomeness, although a month would definitely be better, and hopefully we’ll get just a little bit of love from some of our business colleagues too. Well, […]
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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional you might be at arm’s length from what’s happening in the software development world. [...]
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Change managers wear a number of different hats in ensuring that changes to the corporate IT estate are applied in a speedy, yet [...]
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Public cloud services affect more than the traditional on-premise IT infrastructure. They also affect the people that deliver and [...]
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We’ve been hearing more and more about Business Relationship Management (BRM), and for good reason. BRM has been defined as ‘a formal [...]
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Incident management plays a key part in the IT service management ecosystem and in keeping businesses running. But what are the key [...]
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If you’ve been following my blogs (or even if you’re just a savvy IT professional like yours truly), then you know that ITIL® offers us [...]
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Yesterday I walked home through the park and watched someone throwing around a ball with his dog. Literally every time the guy first [...]
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Following on from my previous blogs on DevOps, service integration and management (SIAM), and Agile, here’s another “ITSM [...]
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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, which public cloud “camp” are you in: Cloud is great? Cloud is a disaster? Couldn’t [...]
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In Part 1 of this blog I offered five tips for getting started with ITIL, the IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework: [...]
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Some people panic when they hear the word ITIL – either because of memories of previous painful, or failed, ITIL adoption projects, or [...]
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If configuration management is about capturing, maintaining, and using information about your assets, then every organization has some [...]
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So in case you hadn't worked it out yet, I'm Joe! Hello there. I'm a native New Yorker and I love everything connected to IT service management (ITSM). I'm a passionate blogger and Twitter addict, and I'm also the resident IT guy at SysAid Technologies.