A recent blog post on the ITSM Portal by Sasha Gilenson looked ahead to the prospects for change and configuration management in 2011, and predicted the wider use of new delivery technologies like SaaS in the provision of solutions to solve traditionally complex enterprise-grade operations.

Gilenson suggested that the growth in virtualization and transition to the Cloud will mean a greater need for automated configuration control. It follows a major shift last year in the use of virtualization to reduce infrastructure costs and streamline operations, moving it beyond test and development …

By 2017, analyst organization IDC predicts that 45 percent of all IT applications will be in the “cloud” or delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS). This is nothing less than a wholesale change in the way computing is delivered to the customer: from computing as a product to computing as a service.

SaaS has now become a tangible reality for enterprises. With SaaS providers such as Salesforce.com, heading for $2 billion in revenues, it is acceptable for organizations to consider SaaS as a realistic alternative to on-premise software.

One of the …

Introducing Staff&Line and EasyVista’s US debut

It always helps to be inspired. So we make no apology for citing two of the greatest thinkers in history in launching the Staff&Line blog to accompany Staff&Line’s new presence in the U.S.

No less an artist than Leonardo da Vinci described simplicity as “the ultimate sophistication” while Albert Einstein said, “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

And we took them at their word to deliver innovation born of simplicity and efficiency: introducing EasyVista.com, our flagship product, which delivers fast, cost-effective and innovative IT …