UK firms breach compliance rules
More than 87% of the UK`s blue chip companies have admitted to breaching current e-mail compliance legislation, according to a study by Corporate VAR SCC.
Computing reports that the study questioned FTSE-listed organisations across vertical markets including financial, legal, insurance and retail, at SCC`s recent e-mail compliance conference, held in partnership with Sun.
Results also revealed that none of the organisations had a fully compliant e-mail policy in place and lacked confidence in their ability to comply with requirements set out in the Data Protection Act and Sarbanes-Oxley.
US govt tests ITIL
In a straw poll of more than 250 US federal, state and local government decision-makers, 65% were testing ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), reports Government Technology.
They wanted to get their arms around everything from support service management - including problem management, incident management, change management, release management and configuration management - and service delivery management - including service level management, availability management, capacity management and financial management - to larger operational processes, which includes infrastructure management, applications management, security management and project management.
They were coming with cap-in-hand, with 35% indicating they now rely on home-grown solutions and roughly half (47%) suggesting they had cobbled together a hybrid management scheme that added commercial tools to their home-grown efforts.
Magnum, Prevari form partnership
Magnum Technologies, provider of IT business service management software, and Prevari, a company focused on improving the way businesses manage IT risk, have forged a partnership designed to respond to a growing demand for service level compliance and IT risk management tools.
According to a press release, both Magnum Technologies and Prevari help IT professionals achieve and measure compliance for industry standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework and governmental regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
"Together, Magnum Technologies and Prevari can offer organisations looking for service level management and IT risk modelling tools a one-two punch," said Gregory Crow, Magnum Technologies president and CEO.
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