Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

With the widespread adoption of cloud technology, data centers play a huge role in running key applications and business processes for organizations around the world. In 2022, the IT spending on data centers is expected to be $227 billion, and $237 billion by 2023. To run these datacenters profitably and deliver quality service to their customers, organizations are constantly trying to squeeze out maximum performance from the hardware.

Ever since it was first introduced, ITIL has become one of the leading frameworks for IT service management. With its clearly defined processes and services as well as logical distribution of roles and responsibilities, ITIL has helped organizations streamline their IT process and deliver value to stakeholders. The framework has helped organizations in their digital transformation by bringing together the stakeholder’s vision and the IT department's implementation.

I’m excited to announce ServiceNow has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools for the second year in a row. This is an extremely important distinction for ServiceNow and our newly named Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) offering. We believe this recognition reflects our expanded hybrid work management approach, financial management support, and extended integration with third-party tools.

Proactive field service is about being one step ahead of your customers. It requires systems that meet customer needs while minimizing their efforts. When thinking about moving from a reactive field service model to a proactive one, most people jump to the Internet of Things (IoT), servitization, and outcome-based services. But it’s important to first create an operationally efficient foundation that benefits both customers and employees. These five steps can help.

I’m often asked all kinds of interesting questions in my day-to-day work. Usually, these questions are related to the products we build here at SolarWinds®, and I absolutely love answering them. But people often ask me a more existential question when I tell them what I do for a living.

See how Nexthink’s IT department extended hardware refresh cycles while increasing employee happiness by offering device choices and incorporating sentiment and environment stewardship into the process. Like many organizations, our IT team has fallen behind on hardware refresh cycles due to the global chip shortage and ongoing supply chain issues.

ITIL and ITSM have growing preominence in current business landscapes. However, people often perceive that these two terms are non-comparable and distinct. Your business will be gaining very little when you seek to consider these terms independently. ITIL and ITSM add value to businesses through cost efficiency, reduced downtime, agility, and operational efficiency. Therefore, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are looking to integrate ITIL and ITSM into their business philosophy for IT management software.

Technological breakthroughs are disrupting the basic norms of Information Technology (IT), and businesses should keep in line with emerging innovations and trends to add value to their services and products. IT service management (ITSM) has become the typical paradigm for resource management of IT products. It has become imperative for businesses to embrace ITSM since it automates IT processes, enhances job satisfaction, and resolves issues.