Due to the complex and interconnected nature of the IT environment, even simple changes, if they fail, can seriously affect organizations. And with business increasingly dependent on IT, the failures ...

One of the highlights for me of NetPro’s annual Directory Experts Conference is the report on the survey of attendees that the company releases after the event. It was slow coming out this year – the ...

It seemed a reasonable approach at the time. Whenever a server went down, the IT operations people at The Procter & Gamble Co. tried to figure out why. They did root-cause analysis in order to ...

Cloud vendor, Giva®, today announced a significant new release of standalone ITIL change management software for the IT change control process. This is for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Health ...

The IT Infrastructure Library, a set of management best practices that has long been popular in Europe, finally is starting to make waves in the U.S. The IT Infrastructure Library, a set of management ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...