Archive for October, 2008
The goal of ‘Problem Management’ is to resolve the root cause of incidents and thus to minimize the adverse impact of incidents and problems on business that are caused by errors within the IT infrastructure, and to prevent recurrence of incidents related to these errors. The ITIL-process Security Management describes the structured fitting of information […]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL Security Management is based on the code of practice for information security management also known as ISO/IEC 17799. In the early 1990s the UK set up a scheme where onsultants were hired, processes evaluated, and the result was the creation of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which was later made available to the […]
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Primarily as a support to other processes, both in Infrastructure Management and Service Management, Technical Support provides a number of specialist functions: Research and Evaluation, Market Intelligence (particularly for Design and Planning and Capacity Management), Proof of Concept and Pilot engineering, specialist technical expertise (particularly to Operations and Problem Management), creation of documentation (perhaps for […]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
In December 2005, the OGC issued notice of an ITIL refresh, commonly known as ITIL v3, which became available in May 2007. ITIL exponents, citing ITIL’s stated intention to be non-prescriptive, are expecting that organizations will have to engage ITIL processes with their existing overall process model.The use of PRINCE2 has spread beyond the UK […]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
It includes many project management disciplines in common with PRINCE2, but has a broader focus to include the necessary integration of Release Management and both functional and non functional testing. Although ITIL was originally created by the CCTA, a UK Government agency. it is now being adopted and used across the world as the defacto […]
October 21st, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has developed the Framework for ICT Technical Support (FITS) and is based on ITIL, but it is slimmed down for UK primary and secondary schools (which often have very small IT departments). ITIL is built around a process-model based view of controlling and managing operations.The high level […]
October 19th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL encourages company leaders and IT professionals to think of IT as a business that serves customers, not only to improve the efficiency of operations, but also to ensure that IT is aligned with an organization’s overall goals. Although ITIL was originally created by the CCTA, a UK Government agency. it is now being adopted […]
October 18th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL is built around a process-model based view of controlling and managing operations. The Service Support ITIL discipline is focused on the User of the ICT services and is primarily concerned with ensuring that they have access to the appropriate services to support the business functions.Best Practice portfolio: new contracts awarded for publishing and accreditation […]
October 17th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The ITIL Frameword shares best practises that can be customized for individual organistaion by IT practicioners and consultants. ITIL s terminology separates CM. Configuration Management from Change Management and Deployment etc. This typically differs from the more holistic definition that exists within the software community.Proper software and hardware control ensures the availability of licensed, tested, […]
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL Application Management set encompasses a set of best practices proposed to improve the overall quality of IT software development and support through the life-cycle of software development projects, with particular attention to gathering and defining requirements that meet business objectives. ITIL has been criticized on several fronts.Commonly the business continuity life cycle is as […]
October 13th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments