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Colt picks up Tibco for cloud services

Real-time deployment and management for high performance apps

SunView Software launches new version of change and configuration management product

Adds dynamic request automation that combines forms authoring, advanced workflows, automated notifications and multi-level approvals

Astea launches new version of Alliance

Supports workforce collaboration, analytics, third party and vendor management and ITIL support

Government to cut £3.2bn a year with radical ICT strategy

Cloud computing, consolidation and shared services part of the vision

SolarWinds acquires assets of Tek-Tools

Extends Orion product portfolio to include storage and virtualisation management

BMC Software unveils SaaS model for Remedy

Allows IT operations to resolve business incidents and enforce service level agreements without on-premise infrastructure or support requirements

Gartner makes BPM predictions for 2010

Modelling will be used more extensively by business people

University of Aberdeen counts on ITIL

IT service desk improves call resolution

IBM to acquire Lombardi

What will BPM vendor bring to Big Blue?

Spiceworks releases new version of IT management software

Includes real-time SQL Server monitoring, enhanced scan scheduling, editable network maps and SSL support

Comments & Opinion

Virtual reality

Is desktop virtualisation the next frontier in ‘internal cloud computing’? Kevin White and Jason Stamper report.

Cloud: Pros and cons

Does the business case for cloud computing really stack up? CBR reports.

Cloudy skies?

Jason Stamper looks beyond the ‘cloud computing’ hype to ask what it really is, and just as crucially, what it is not.

Thought Leaders: running IT as a business

This white paper was written by Professor Paul P Tallon of the Sellinger School of Business and Management, Loyola College, Baltimore, for CBR on behalf of GlassHouse Technologies. It outlines the steps companies can take to treat storage as a service-orientated business, moving IT from being a cost centre to a value centre.

Central Station: the rise of the CMDB

Interest in the configuration management database (CMDB) is helping to drive a wave of interest in business service management, or BSM. But is there real value behind the CMDB acronym?

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