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How Cool is the Cloud? Exploring Your Data Center Cooling Options

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All Data Centers, whether great or small, have one thing in common; they have a heat transfer (cooling) problem. Not even ten years ago, cooling problems were solved with the purchase and insta...
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Cask and Apptio Partner to Deliver IT Service Cost, Quality, and Value Management Solutions to Customers

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San Francisco, CA (Cask), April 29, 2014 – Cask LLC, a provider of Technology Investment and Lifecycle Advisory Services, and Apptio, the leading provider of Technology Business Management (TBM...
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Cask and Apptio Partner to Deliver IT Service Cost, Quality, and Value Management Solutions to Customers

By Cask
San Francisco, CA (Cask), April 29, 2014 - Cask LLC, a provider of Technology Investment and Lifecycle Advisory Services, and Apptio, the leading provider of Technology Business Management (TBM...
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ITIL Foundation Public Virtual Course

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The 3-day ITIL Foundation course offers candidates a general awareness of the key elements, concepts, and terminology used in the ITIL Service Lifecycle, including the linkages between Lifecycl...
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Don't Be Seduced by Metrics

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Successful business leaders understand the importance of establishing key metrics to measure effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery against organizational goals and initiatives. It is...
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The Evolution of GRC

"Was all this legal? Absolutely not." - Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street. For those who haven't seen Leonardo DiCaprio's latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street - the premise of the movie c...
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How I Met...Cask

One of the things that fascinates me the most about ServiceNow is not the tool or the platform, neither the applications nor the power of the technology. What truly fascinates me is the Service...
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Economic Benefits Analysis? Where do I Start?

In my last post on March 5, 2014, I discussed the differences and similarities between Cost Estimation/Analysis and Economic Benefits Analysis. Further, I introduced the concept of Capabilities...
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Project in Progress

Project Management best practices such as PMBOK and PRINCE2 encourage the creation of important artifacts during early stages of a project's life. These artifacts, such as a Work Breakdown Stru...
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Cyber Security: Is There a Recipe?

Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition professionals continue to be challenged with integrating cyber security in their programs. If you've heard the clich
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Communication, Engagement, and Enrollment - Three Components for Successful Change

In too many engagements over the past few years I've run across "Organizational Change Management Plans" that are more so communication plans with a marketing spin. It's as if we can create cha...
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EVM: Just Another Acronym? Or, The Key to Success?

Have you sat in a meeting recently where you heard someone say something such as, "We did terrible this month, we planned a lot of BCWS but claimed very little BCWP and our ACWP was far greater...
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Blending Best Practice Frameworks to Create an Organizational Style

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Join Cask to learn how best practice frameworks are in many ways comparable to the images and advice found in the columns of fashion magazines. IT Service Management, Program Management, and So...
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