How Digital Transformation is Disrupting IT Service Management
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Your New Year’s Resolution for 2016: Start with a Cisco Domain Ten Workshop
A few years ago, I wrote a series of blogs on Cisco’s Domain Ten(SM) framework. Since then, we’ve used this simple yet powerful analysis tool to help guide many customers on data center and IT transformation projects. I personally found it quite
How Do You Manage the Cloud with ITIL?
ITIL is simply a set of best practices for IT service management (ITSM). Over many years, IT practitioners have followed ITIL to manage the lifecycle of traditional IT-services. However, with the rise of cloud services, it’s changing how we launch
Active SLAs – New Approach for Multi-sourcing Governance
Last month, I attended the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) Outourcing World Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. I had the chance to glean fresh insights from industry-leading practitioners and get a global view from sourcing
SIAM: the next ITIL?
The acronym SIAM stands for Service Integration And Management, and it is a hot topic in the world of IT Service Management…..but why? Service integration models have been around awhile, but are evolving from the challenges of managing a small number
Introducing the Cisco IT eStore and a Service Catalog for BYOD
Cisco IT has always encouraged employees to use the tools that help them work most efficiently from anywhere on any device. As the range of IT services we offered has increased, we noticed that the process of acquiring the various tools became complex
Introducing Cisco Prime Service Catalog – Focusing on User Experience
When was the last time you turned on your new gadget, opened an app, or logged onto a website and found that you needed to attend a training course before you could use it effectively? At times, we in the IT industry fall into the trap that we need
The path to mature Infrastructure and Operations is through culture?
As the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas, NV closes, I can’t help feeling a bit of irony in bearing witness to the contrast in culture and atmosphere that this city encompasses relative to the experience many of us have interacting with