Heads up! Updated security standard coming….25th July 2013David Norfolk and Fran Howarth The ISO 27000 standards are a good basis for an Information Security Management System - and an update is expected this year.
Call for Papers for the BCS CMSG 2013 Conference – deadline 11th March21st February 2013David Norfolk This is the premier UK event on Change, Release, Asset and Configuration Management for ITIL and Service Management.
An alternative to open source licensing?27th September 2012David Norfolk A heads up on RTI's new Infrastructure Community (IC) licensing model.
The DMTF’s Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) - a new cloud infrastructure management standard20th September 2012David Norfolk An open standard for managing IaaS is necessary to deliver effective interoperability for cloud services.
The DMTF’s CIMI cloud standard19th September 2012David Norfolk A new standard for managing cloud infrastructures
Backup as malware!2nd August 2012David Norfolk Is an antivirus product which stops backups running simply a poor joke?
Windows backup as malware? - Or has the AV software just got it horribly wrong.2nd August 2012David Norfolk Kaspersky AV stops Windows 7 backup running. But according to Kaspersky tech support, this is a 'feature' not a 'bug'
A PaaS trusted computing platform9th July 2012David Norfolk Very possibly, building a PaaS for multi-tenancy will give us a trusted, virtualised computing platform that's better than the real thing.
The missing ITIL Manual you always wanted29th March 2012David Norfolk An official introduction to the ITIL Service Lifecycle - that might suit managers as well as practitioners.