Microsoft are more avaricious than the Fat ITSM Four, by a nose

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2007-03-24 20:22

A recent comment (reposted for your convenience) in response to my item about Microsoft trying to patent CMDB, said

Microsoft is worse than ITIL?
The Vendor and British ITIL cabal are busy redefining their closed, theoretical "framework" to include everything under the sun. And, they seem to be doing it for the express purpose of advancing the vendors sales performance.

Rediscovering the Big Iron

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2007-03-23 01:39

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

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2007-03-16 01:18

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.

Vendors should get a vote too? What do you think?

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2007-03-14 23:06

The IT Skeptic is considering introducing something soon that allows public voting related to products. I know of vendors rorting such a system by requesting all staff to vote for that vendor's product.

Irrational exuberance in the IT industry: CMDB is going nuts

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2007-03-14 08:09

Everybody is piling into the CMDB frenzy now, including dodgy journos and madly re-inventing software companies... and this blog. ITIL may not be a fad but the IT Skeptic thinks CMDB now is one.

CIO Asia magazine criticises the IT Skeptic's comments

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2007-03-12 02:16

Looks like I'll never work in Asia again :-) I've taken some flak in CIO Asia magazine regarding views expressed on a Datamation forum.

SLAs: measuring an ITSM service as a black box is essential

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2007-03-10 15:13

Measuring a service as a black box is essential. Simply because it is impossible (in a practical sense) to discover and measure every link in a service chain, it is impossible to build a complete composite view of a service's performance bottom-up from the component CIs.

Web 2.0, hype or just hype? An IT Skeptic Special Report

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2007-03-08 08:18

The hype wave of Web 2.0 approaches a crescendo. Apparently it is going to transform IT and reengineer the business. The IT Skeptic thinks not. Actually I think "not again".

NEW! Announcing the newsletter of the IT Skeptic: The Skeptical Informer™

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2007-03-06 10:52

The inaugural February edition of the Skeptical Informer™ is out, summarising that month's activity on the IT Skeptic website, plus some additional content for newsletter subscribers. All the IT skeptical news that is fit to print ... and then some! Subscribe to receive the next edition by email at the end of March. Sign up now!

Syndicate content