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ITIL Version 3 London launch event announced: the IT Skeptic comments

skeptic — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:02:47 -0600

Man, news gets old fast. I've just finished giving itSMF heat for lack of an announcement and then today we get this: itSMF Version 3 will be launched June 5 in London. The interesting aspects of the announcement are....

Rediscovering the Big Iron

skeptic — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:39:09 -0600

Virtualisation, CMDB, autodiscovery, swappable CPUs, intelligent media devices, systems and availability management, capacity modelling... The mainframe worked all this out decades ago. Here's a story I heard from fairly close to the source so it is probably fairly close to the truth. Whatever, it makes a good story

IBM wrote ITIL. In fact Alasdair Meldrum did

skeptic — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:18:45 -0600

Just when I say that all the hype is in CMDB and that ITIL in general is ticking along fairly soberly, along comes someone to prove me wrong. Two people actually: someone hyping their own significance; and what passes for a journalist on the web these days uncritically lapping it up.