feature What is ITSM? Managing IT to serve business needs As technology becomes increasingly essential to business growth, companies look for ways to incorporate IT services into overall needs. ITSM helps businesses build structure around the lifecycle of those IT services, from ideation and creation, to ma By Sarah K. White May 27, 2025 9 mins IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership IT Strategy opinion The great IT disconnect: Vendor visions of the future vs. IT’s task at hand For CIOs, critically important first steps toward IT’s future require the kind of customer-informed vision few vendors and CEO ‘visionaries’ are offering right now. By Thornton May May 27, 2025 5 mins IT Strategy Technology Industry Vendor Management feature Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend A significant percentage of enterprise cloud network spending is wasted, due to preventable mistakes and manual processes, and the recent spike in AI deployments is adding to the problem. 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