A new membership association for senior level IT professionals was announced at the Annual IT Infrastructure Management Conference & Expo, Las Vegas. The IT Infrastructure Management Association is ‘dedicated to being the IT industry's leading membership association for IT professionals responsible for the deployment, management and effectiveness of IT infrastructure’.

The ITIM Association's founding strategic advisory board comprises a group of industry experts, analysts, business leaders and journalists, including HDI founder and CEO Ron Muns; advisory board chairman Pete McGarahan, president, McGarahan & Associates; Steven Birgfeld, CIO, CompuCom; Patrick Bultema, venture partner, vSpring Capital; Mike Carper, divisional VP, technology operations, Coldwater Creek; David Coyle, research director, IT operations management, Gartner, Inc.; Jonathan Feldman, journalist and director of IT services, City of Asheville, NC; Ron Hurle, general manager of enterprise production services, Intel; Brian Johnson, ITIL worldwide practice manager, CA, Inc.; Kurt Milne, managing director, Information Technology Process Institute; Jim Sage, VP IT and CIO, University of Akron; John C. (Jack) Scott, founding partner, Evaluator Group and Peter O'Neill, principal analyst, Forrester Research.

In addition, the ITIM Association has assembled a group of industry advisers to identify a number of key focus areas in order to address critical issues affecting IT management. These leaders will provide expertise and lead member forums, discussions, blogs and other educational and membership community offerings.

Focus areas include:

* Infrastructure Management Strategies, led by Pete McGarahan, McGarahan & Associates
* IT Governance, led by Jan Heuthorst, Quint Wellington Redwood USA
* IT Compliance, led by Michael Bargerhuff, Apollo Group, Inc.
* Service Desk, led by Jim Bolton, Propoint Solutions
* Network Operations, led by Rhonda Vetere, JP Morgan Chase
* Service Level Management led by Patti Magers, Fox IT
* Business Continuity, led by Dennis Wenk, Hitachi Data Systems
* Business Alignment, led by Terry Okus, IBM Global Services
* Change and Configuration Management, led by Kevin Johnson, Seamless Technologies
* IT Security, led by Stan Waddell, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
* Financial Management, led by Suzon Crowell of Accenture
* Lou Hunnebeck of CCN, Inc. will serve as an ‘adviser at large’.

Members of the ITIM Association will receive access to an online community that features a web-based interactive library, webinars, subscriptions to the Infrastructure Insite Magazine, the ITIM eZine newsletter, white papers, blogs and discounts on the ITIM Conference & Expo, books and online educational and training materials.

"This is an exciting and important development for the IT industry," commented Ron Muns, founder and CEO, ITIM Association. "The ITIM Association is the first forum that brings together all the varied areas of expertise involved in the successful sourcing, deployment, management and retirement of IT infrastructure technology. It is our hope that the ITIM Association will offer an invaluable new resource to IT managers and executives looking to stay on top of the latest industry trends and issues in IT infrastructure management."

For more information, or to join the ITIMA, visit http://www.itimassociation.com/ or call 800-934-6566.

•Date: 10th Nov 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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