Know the ITIL framework’s essential ideas, principles, and procedures. To be good at managing IT services, you should study the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service lifecycle and its five phases: ...

On May 30, the U.K.’s Office of Government Commerce replaced the current eight-book ITIL library – a set of rules for how to deliver IT services more efficiently by improving management processes ...

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 ...

The ISO/IEC 20000 standard is a pass-fail certification that requires complete adoption of a specific subset of the IT Infrastructure Library. There’s not huge interest in the standard yet, but ...

It’s been nearly a year since Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) came out. The update to ITIL, a framework for best practices in IT service delivery, was intended to sharpen its focus ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Not only is there currently a high demand for IT techs, there is also the need for IT ...

What do IBM, Walmart, and the Walt Disney Company all have in common? They all use ITIL-or Information Technology Infrastructure Library, a widely accepted set of practices in the IT service industry.

Though certifications haven’t been in the news as much this year, indicators still show that they will remain important in the coming year for hiring managers. One particular certification that shows ...

Attaining IT service management certification, it seems, is still not a priority for some organizations in Asia. Steve Wells, DHL's acting vice president of strategy and planning for Asia-Pacific, ...

In just a few years, cloud became the dominant technology. Learn how a methodology like ITIL can help manage delivery of services through the cloud. Cloud-based services, in comparison to ...