Foundations of Service Level Management

Foundations of Service Level Management provides detailed recommendations for creating a service level management strategy and establishing service level agreements. This book also shows IT managers and executives at third-party SLM companies how to deploy services more quickly, placing a premium on time to market and time to scale, become more service oriented, delivering guaranteed services through service-level agreements (SLAs), evolve from reactive network management to proactive service management, and reduce costs whenever possible by automating network and service management.

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Wayne Morris is the vice president at BMC Software, Inc. He speaks regularly at industry trade shows and conferences including Uniforum, Networld+Interop, DB Expo, Enterprise Management Summit and Computer Measurement Group. In addition, Morris is frequently asked to comment in major trade press articles on application management and his papers have been published in the USA, Europe and Australia.