10 Simple Steps to ITIL Network Compliance

Network management is an area where ITIL compliance, aided by the right tools, can provide a rapid return on investment. Network problems are a major cause of business disruption and financial loss (more than 3.6% of the annual revenues of medium and large organisations are lost to downtime each year, according to a study by Infonetics). The following ten points explain some of the objectives outlined in ITIL v3, and how one product in particular—Infoblox’s NetMRI network analytics engine—is uniquely positioned to help organisations comply with ITIL with minimum preparation and investment.

1. Early detection of incidents
2. Improve downtime and increase service availability
3. Reduce the cost of workarounds and fixes that do not work
4. Identify potential improvements to service
5. Automate operations
6. Align IT activity to real-time business priorities
7. Increase productivity of the business and IT staff
8. Continuous service improvements
9. Monitor by exception
10. Trusted source of analyzed data for the CMDB