http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ Use IThound RSS Feeds to keep up-to-date with new research on the topics that are most important to you. Client Management Suite™ Comprehensive IT Lifecycle Management IT departments are faced with managing numerous, constantly changing clients, including desktops, notebooks, thin clients, and handhelds. Altiris can help. http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2531 EMA™ Advisory Note: CMDB System Deployments in 2008 - the search for value EMA research has revealed that CMDB deployments are indeed at a fundamentally different stage than they have been over the past two to four years. Download now to learn more about the state of CMDB deployments in 2008 http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2494 Small Change or Big Deal? - Top Ten Tips for Change Management for IT Service Delivery Why is it that so many companies are still struggling to manage change effectively? This Best Practice white paper looks at the common pitfalls and how you can avoid them and change for the better. http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2493 Achieving Service-Level Compliance with Business-Critical Applications What are the greatest challenges found in management of business critical applications? This white paper seeks to help senior IT managers in managing service levels of business-critical software and shares some best practices that leading organisations are applying to address these challenges. http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2392 What You Should Look for in a 'Virtualization 2.0-Ready' Monitoring Solution This document outlines the key management challenges that must be overcome as the use of virtualization continues to increase in production enterprise environments. 'Virtualization 2.0-Ready' identifies fundamental changes that are needed in terms of how virtualized environments should be monitored http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2386 A Collaborative Approach Accelerates the Transition from Silo Management to True Service Management This white paper advocates that organisations should move away from restrictive silo-based system monitoring to a business service based approach. Such a solution enables an enterprise-wide view of service availability and performance regardless of infrastructure size, configuration and topology. http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2382 Virtualization and Management – Trends, Forecasts, and Recommendations (Summary) This EMA Advisory Note summarises the findings of an extensive study into virtualisation and its management in a broad range of organisations from SMBs to large enterprises. In particular it provides advice on how to ensure that the benefits from a P to V consolidation can be realised. http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2381 Achieving Business Performance Goals through Virtualization Management Best Practices Virtual environments hosting critical business services need comprehensive performance monitoring tools that understand the interdependencies of the whole environment – hosts, VMs, application components – and can track, analyze, and prevent problems across the entire IT service infrastructure. http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2380 Pragmatic Business Service Management Only one in five CIOs believe that their own IT goals are currently aligned with the strategic goals of the business. This white paper explores current efforts to align IT with the business, how Business Service Management (BSM) can support these efforts and a pragmatic approach for implementing BSM http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=2281 ITIL V3 Online Maturity Assessment Tool Producing Tailored Report Increase the alignment between your organisation and IT by taking our free, 10 minute online assessment to establish your ITIL V3 readiness. The assessment will produce a tailored report with recommendations on how to improve your IT service provision. http://ithound.computing.co.uk/ithound/view_abstract?id=1937