It’s that time of year again when we get to make our New Year resolutions – with these things that hopefully get to last longer than the month of January. We might make a list of our New Year resolutions in our personal lives, but what about in our professional lives? Especially since any workplace-related resolutions might make our work lives easier or more rewarding (and ideally both). So what resolutions could you consider for 2022?

Tl;dr: Log4j is a mess, if you’re chasing down the applications, services and servers that use Java; consider the suggestions below to make zero day patching easier.

As I write this blog on IT service management (ITSM) predictions for 2022, I’m not entirely sure where 2021 disappeared to. 2021 went very much the way of 2020 for many IT organizations. However, it did see the replacement of 2020’s need to rapidly move employees to homeworking (and changing IT services and support capabilities to reflect new ways of working) with the need to return some employees to office-based working.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled It’s Time to Get Rid of the IT Department. It’s paywalled, so those without a subscription might not be able to read it, but the gist of it is this: IT departments are the lumbering remnants of a bygone era, and as such should be put out to pasture.