The truth about integrating Cloud services and ITSM
Cloud functionality increases flexibility and capacity in IT systems, but it also adds complexity and requires a combination of business, financial and technical expertise to make it work effectively. Moreover, organisations often confuse availability with capacity, and assume incorrectly that using cloud services reduces the need to manage these factors.
Lessons from real projects in a narrative format
In Availability and Capacity Management in the Cloud: An ITSM narrative, Daniel McLean’s fictional IT service management practitioner, Chris, faces the challenge of integrating cloud services into an ITSM structure. Based on the real-life experience of the author and other ITSM practitioners, this book tells the story of a cloud services implementation, exposing potential pitfalls and exploring how to handle issues that come with such projects.
Tips to help you through your own project
The end-of-chapter pointers give useful advice on dealing with the challenges organisations face when considering cloud services. Read this book and see how Chris meets the challenge of integrating cloud services with ITSM, and how you can do the same.
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Customer Reviews
1: All Together Now
2: One Big Happy Family
3: Who Wants to Support this Service?
4: The Abandoned Service
5: Don't Confuse me with the Details
6: Voices in the Night
7: When Capacity isn't Enough
8: Coffee Talk
9: Just Sit There and Take It
10: Once More Unto the Breach, My Friend?
11: Reprimand by Remote Control
12: Success Feels Good
13: No Plan Survives Contact with Reality
14: Things are Rarely what they Seem