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ALSO CALLED: Information Technology Infrastructure Library and IT Infrastructure Library
DEFINITION: The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a globally recognized collection of best practices for information technology (IT) service management. The United Kingdom's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) created ITIL in response to growing  … 
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Applying ITIL Best Practices to IPAM
sponsored by BT INS
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how each of the main ITIL areas can be applied specifically to IP address management (IPAM), and the benefits that can be achieved from using an ITIL management framework.
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 | Published: 05 Sep 2008
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Business Service Management Links IT Services to Business Goals
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Business Service Management helps establish IT as a strategic service supplier that streamlines customer transactions and enables business growth.
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | Published: 25 Aug 2008
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Enhancing IT Support with Knowledge Management
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Knowledge Management is a multi-faceted initiative involving a degree of cultural change for the organization, it requires a change in processes, a reevaluation of how knowledge is captured and represented.
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | Published: 25 Aug 2008
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Essential ITIL: What You Need to Exceed
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: ITIL starts with a commitment to the people of IT, because it consists of a series of individual IT practitioner certifications.
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | Published: 25 Aug 2008
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Strategies for Optimizing IT Operations and Enabling Comprehensive Compliance
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: The combined enterprise goal of simplifying the daily operations of today's data centers and ensuring comprehensive compliance with regulations plays a huge part in running a cost-effective and risk-free business.
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | Published: 25 Aug 2008
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Service Management: Identify and Leverage Your Existing Service Life Cycles
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows the progression of service management since the 1990s. It will discuss the hidden service life cycles and how to make them work once they are visible. Learn how to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.
Posted: 13 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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EMA Advisory Note: Danger of Tools before Process and Requirements, Or - Time to Buy a Lawn Mower
sponsored by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores some of the considerations and pitfalls for purchasing a CMDB tool before taking the final leap and provides a common sense approach to evaluating the direction in which your company is heading.
Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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"Multisourcing: The New Face of Outsourcing for Today's Business World"
sponsored by Dimension Data
WHITE PAPER: The Multisourcing approach allows clients to pick and choose between Service Providers and select the "right" sources for IT services in order to obtain the best business outcomes.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008
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TOPICS:  ITIL | Outsourcing | Procurement | ROI | SLA

Transcript: Turbo Boosting ITIL with Business Analysis Part 1: The Requirements Alignment Axis
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This webcast transcript offers instruction on how to formalize your enterprise Business Analysis practice to drive greater value out of all your ITIL initiatives. Learn how to implement a best practices strategy to maximize IT services.
Posted: 04 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Transcript: Turbo Boosting ITIL with Business Analysis Part 2: Driving Alignment with the Business Analysis Center of Excellence
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This webcast will explore the dynamics of developing and putting in place a Business Analysis Center of Excellence and its importance from an enterprise point of view and continually driving high quality IT services throughout the enterprise.
Posted: 04 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Service-Oriented Automation: Making Loosely-Coupled Processes More Agile
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: CA Workload Automation accelerates the design and delivery of composite and virtual applications making them more reliable. Learn how automation achieves consistency with traditional hard-coded or manual approaches ensuring uniformity.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Oracle Database Security: Preventing Enterprise Data Leaks at the Source
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices to prevent sensitive customer data.
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Roundtrip Traceability: Enhancing Quality in the Software Development Lifecycle
sponsored by Telelogic, An IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: Roundtrip Traceability enhances quality in the software development lifecycle (SDL). This provides stakeholders and their customers with the ability to assess the impact of a change and report and monitor development to ensure continuous improvement.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 10 Jul 2008
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Five CIO Challenges Addressed by Better Change Management
sponsored by Telelogic, An IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. This white paper addresses five of the most important change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Tips to Improve Capacity Planning through Power Management
sponsored by Raritan Computer, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, analyst Joe Clabby will describe what capacity planning is all about, data center capacity problems that IT managers are facing today, how these problems are being addressed.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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10 Best-Practice Tips to Help You Succeed with Your Enterprise CMDB Project
sponsored by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
WHITE PAPER: EMA has culled through 1000+ pieces of advice to identify 10 best practices to help you succeed with your CMDB project. This paper details these tips, highlights key findings from EMA research, and shares practical advice directly from your peers.
Posted: 08 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Collaboration: Across the Room or across the Globe
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Learn about collaboration capabilities such as unified communications and VoIP, enteprise instant messaging and web conferencing, as well as web 2.0 technologies.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Innovative Collaboration to Advance Your Business
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper learn how to bypass the challenge of adding new collaborative capabilities to what you already have and how to deal with dispersed content sources and system redundancies.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Extend Workflow and Automation - Taking Process Automation to the Limit
sponsored by Opalis Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The newest release of Opalis Integration Server version 5.5 continues to extend the capabilities of workflow automation and integration. Read this paper to learn about the first IT process automation executive dashboard to deliver end-to-end automation.
Posted: 24 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Opalis Announces New Release, OEM Partnership with CA
sponsored by Opalis Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper covers two April 2008 announcements by Opalis Software Inc. The first announced the general availability of Opalis Integration Server 5.5 and the second introduced an OEM partnership between Opalis and CA.
Posted: 24 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 3
sponsored by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 3
WHITE PAPER: This third issue of the Virtual Data Center e-zine sifts through the maze of products and technologies that make up VMware's virtualization ecosystem. It then takes a comprehensive look at the new world of virtual desktop delivery and management
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Good to Great: Transform IT through Service Lifecycle Management
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines service lifecycle management SLcM and the ITIL v3 principles on which it is based. It shows how SLcM provides the framework for organizations to optimize business outcomes and facilitates continual service improvement.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Realizing ITIL V3: Top Technologies to Drive Value
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Interested in ITIL v3 but not sure how to start? ITIL v3 best practices define how IT can better organize itself to understand and meet business needs, from strategy to operations and ongoing improvement.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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From Silos to Services: Using CMDB Federation to Enable an ITIL Version 3 Configuration Management System
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: By using a federated approach to a Configuration Management System, IT organizations can dynamically access information across teams and tools, resulting in faster, better, business-aware decisions that improve business service quality and cost.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
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5 Steps Every CIO Should Follow to Increase Operational Maturity through Data Center Automation
sponsored by Stratavia
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is directed to technology executives who are looking to increase the efficiency and operational maturity of their IT operations and will discuss each step required to fully realize the potential of your technology investments.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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ITIL DEFINITION (continued): …  dependence on information technology for meeting business needs and goals. ITIL provides businesses with a customizable framework of best practices to achieve quality service and overcome difficulties associated with the growth of IT systems. Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft are two businesses that use ITIL as part of their own best practices frameworks.

ITIL is organized into "sets" of books which are defined by related functions: service strategy, service design, managerial, service transition, … 
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