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 <title>Service Assurance and the pursuit of the elusive service view</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I learned a new (for me) buzzword recently when a journalist asked me about &quot;Service Assurance&quot;.  Sounds like a new spin on an old idea: the single view of a service.  This is yet another techno-geek wet dream.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itskeptic.org/service-assurance-and-pursuit-elusive-service-view&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>The third castor: IT Assurance</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The IT Swami &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itskeptic.org/node/517&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;long ago had the vision&lt;/a&gt; of the three legs (or castors) of the IT Management chair: Service, Governance and Assurance.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Service is well established now, thanks to ITIL - at least in our minds if not so much in practice yet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itskeptic.org/third-castor-it-assurance&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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