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The IT Skeptic has banned Bloglines crawlers

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2007-02-04 10:43

If you use Bloglines and subscribe to http://www.itskeptic.org or http://www.itskeptic.org/rss.xml, sorry but it isn't going to work any more.

ITIL is on the wane - Bruton

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2007-01-22 14:51

Here is an excellent article by Noel Bruton on how ITIL has peaked, that I commend to your attention.

But not just for that concept, though it is a lovely skeptical read. I particularly enjoyed his take on CMDB:

2007 is the year when PC and TV merge.

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2007-01-10 05:52

Further to the predictions of the IT Swami, this is the year when the PC and the TV merge: Apple reveals plans for joining PC to TV. Of course they aren't there yet with this one.

Apple TV, as discussed in September, is a small white box that plugs into a flat-panel TV and wirelessly connects to a Mac or PC over an 802.11n network, allowing content stored on the computer to play on the television.

itSMF predicts competition to ITIL

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2007-01-09 23:30

Further to our recent comments about how ISO20000 will displace ITIL, and how the key players can be seen to be setting up for this, itSMF themselves predict emerging competition to ITIL:

The IT Swami predicts 2007

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2007-01-03 08:53

The IT Skeptic takes the day off, doing what skeptics do for fun (don’t ask). In his place we have his alter-ego the IT Swami kicking off the New Year with some predictions for IT in the coming twelve months.

In Service Management:

The itSMF, EXIN and ASEB – all snubbed by OGC - will drive the new ISO20000 industry.

The ITIL 3 books will be good. Sales will be brisk. They will be greeted with acclaim in most quarters and criticism in a few (including this site, you can bet). One country in Europe will be less enthusiastic.

Announcing the Inaugural IT Skeptic Awards for 2006

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2007-01-01 23:12

This article has been podcast

The IT Skeptic is pleased to announce our first annual awards, presented to deserving figures and organisations in the IT industry in general and the ITSM industry in particular.

This year’s winners are:

Another ITIL compliance howler, this one from CA

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2006-12-31 01:32

Further to my recent articles here and on ITSMWatch, I saw this

CA introduced a new set of software, services and training programs June 27 that aim to help its customers implement and automate yet another set of regulations, IT Infrastructure Library best practices. ... CA's Service Management Accelerator is designed to let IT organizations simplify standards compliance across these ITIL processes, a CA spokesperson said.

SLAs are not as widely applicable as ITIL would have us believe. The Catalog is.

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2006-12-28 22:21

SLAs work in large siloed formal organisations such as ...oh um... big British mainframe sites of the 1980s.

You don't need a weatherman... watch everyone scramble aboard ISO20000

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2006-12-25 19:29

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" [Bob Dylan]. Watch all the key ITIL players rapidly embracing ISO20000. When ITIL is just one more IT-geek thing we reminisce about to prove how long we've been around, you read the prediction of its demise here first.

What ARE Microsoft up to? Patents on RSS, CMDB, IT operations... Can they get away with this?

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2006-12-22 19:15

The IT Skeptic recently reported on Microsoft's attempts to patent CMDB and other obvious concepts. Now ZDNet reports they are trying to patent RSS too. This smacks of the lunacy that only lawyers can generate, but what if they actually got away with it? I can believe that as an organisation they are megalomaniac enough to think they can.

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