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	<title>The Service Management Soapbox</title>
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	<description>Glenn O'Donnell's IT Service Management Blog</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Forrester Report: A Federated CMDB Remains Distant, but Start Now</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/07/07/forrester-report-a-federated-cmdb-remains-distant-but-start-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn&#8217;s latest Forrester report, dated 30-Jun-2008:
A Federated CMDB Remains Distant, but Start Now
is available on the Forrester web site. This report is for Forrester clients only. Its distribution is restricted by the terms of Forrester Research client agreements.
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		<title>Forrester Blog: CIs are People Too!</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/07/07/forrester-cis-are-people-too/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/07/07/forrester-cis-are-people-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn posted a new Forrester blog entry on 27-Jun-2008, highlighting the human elements of the CMDB:
CIs are People Too!
This blog posting is visible to anyone, but bound by Forrester Research copyright protections.
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		<title>Glenn Joins Forrester Research</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/07/07/glenn-joins-forrester-research/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/07/07/glenn-joins-forrester-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,
It&#8217;s been far too long since I posted something here. I&#8217;ve been busy starting the next chapter in my life. I am proud to announce that as of May 5, 2008, I am a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research!
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		<title>EMC-BMC Merger Hopes Fade</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/03/17/emc-bmc-merger-hopes-fade/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/03/17/emc-bmc-merger-hopes-fade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DISCLAIMER: First, let me make one thing clear &#8230; despite my prior position with EMC, I do not have any insider information on what I am about to write below. I am merely observing and analyzing what is obvious to me or to anyone else who has enjoyed long-term, broad market exposure the way I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could DNS be YOUR Problem?</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/03/12/could-dns-be-your-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/03/12/could-dns-be-your-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SLM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most fundamental mechanisms of distributed systems. It is so basic and so widespread that it has become nearly invisible. As a service so obscured from view, it may seem inconsequential. Nothing can be further from the truth. It is, in fact, one of the main underpinnings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punitive Outsourcing and How to Avoid It</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/31/punitive-outsourcing-and-how-to-avoid-it/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/31/punitive-outsourcing-and-how-to-avoid-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In early 2004, I published a META Group paper entitled The Expanding Operational Maturity Gap wherein I formally introduced the term punitive outsourcing. It has become one of my favorite wakeup calls to IT because it taps into that visceral paranoia invoked by any phrase containing the word outsourcing. Punitive outsourcing is self explanatory and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Innovative About Performance</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/23/get-innovative-about-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/23/get-innovative-about-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One aspect of IT management automation that has frustrated me for years is the relative lackluster progress we’ve made in the area of performance. With all the other wonderful innovations we’ve made, I’m confounded that performance remains largely in the dark ages. This need not be. This must not be. We are finally beginning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMDB is the New Integration Mechanism</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/18/cmdb-is-the-new-integration-mechanism/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/18/cmdb-is-the-new-integration-mechanism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Management tool integration has long been the bane of IT Operations organizations. Getting one tool to communicate with another has always been difficult because there are far too many incompatible data definitions that are used to integrate data from one tool to another. Each vendor has its own data model and various APIs to exchange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Exits EMC</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/16/glenn-exits-emc/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2008/01/16/glenn-exits-emc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you now know, I have resigned my marketing position at EMC. I am still a big fan of EMC&#8217;s management technology, having played a major role in its evolution and the expansion of EMC&#8217;s ITSM market presence. My affinity for Smarts, a company EMC acquired in early 2005, is what compelled me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Service&#8221; is in the Eye of the Beholder</title>
		<link>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2007/12/13/service-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/</link>
		<comments>http://itsm.glennodonnell.com/2007/12/13/service-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most commonly sought concepts in IT service management over the past decade has been service level management (SLM). Prior to widespread adoption of ITIL, SLM was most commonly associated with performance metrics for infrastructure elements (e.g., network devices, servers). Unfortunately, this perspective of SLM is wrong &#8230; well, it&#8217;s usually wrong.
What was [...]]]></description>
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