EGUIDE:
When it comes to contract negotiations, CIOs hold more sway than they think. Next time you negotiate with suppliers, ensure you get a better price from likes of SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Access this expert guide to discover vendor negotiation tips for midmarket CIOs working with these vendors from Forrester Senior Analyst Duncan Jones.
EGUIDE:
In this expert e-guide from SearchCloudComputing.com, discover how to deploy proper cloud management services and trust your move to the cloud will ensure successful operations, even in an off-site data center.
VIDEO:
This brief, two minute video will teach you about a single-platform IT service management (ITSM) solution that provides flexible deployment options, reduces IT costs, improves service delivery, and more.
EGUIDE:
This e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com explains how a data center consolidation strategy can benefit from the ITIL lifecycle. Discover how your organization can gain from these ITIL lifecycle phases: service strategy, service design, service transition, service operations, and continuous improvement.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This presentation transcript reveals best practices for license management. Find out how you can leverage ITIL to recover costs and discover guidelines for negotiating license agreements.
EBOOK:
It's a brave new world for IT service management. Managing IT services today requires CIOs to keep up with cloud, mobile and users' insistence on self-service IT. This SearchCIO handbook, CIO contributor Harvey Koeppel explains why you should revamp your ITSM strategies.
WHITE PAPER:
IT executives and their teams need a comprehensive and accurate view of IT services. A service catalog includes all relevant details about your services, including which service level agreements (SLAs) are associated with it, who is able to request it, how much it costs, and how to fulfill it. This paper describes the IT Infrastructure...
EGUIDE:
This exclusive eGuide addresses the role of this new concept, service level agreements (SLAs), some of the points of value it can offer your business, as well as number of helpful tips to keep in mind if you are deciding to implement the system.
EGUIDE:
Data center admins have a seemingly never-ending to-do list when it comes to infrastructure monitoring. From server to equipment monitoring, it's a practice that's often difficult to juggle. Read on to view five tips to fine-tune your data center monitoring, including how to increase security and scalability.
