IT jobs.....what does these terms mean????

People use IS (information services) rather than IT/ICT sometimes to describe a department when they want to push the fact that you are offering services to the business. Offering the business services and solutions that support business processes rather than just keeping thier kit running.

Services being the key word there, but as people have said it's just another term for IT department really.

And as has been said by everyone, SMS is systems management server, now replaced with SCCM but quite a few places still run SMS 2003 and haven't upgraded yet.

Offers remote/automated software and updates deployment, inventory management, reporting on assets, os deployment etc. It's great and I like it a lot (worked as an SMS/SCCM contractor for a bit) :)

From a helpdesk point of view SMS was generally used to push out software and remote control user sessions. SCCM did away with the remote stuff and uses either remote assistance or rdp, depending on the situation.
 
Forgot to say where I am it's ICT for the infrastructure and support side of things.

Where I was previously the dept was known as Information Services, which was then broken down into 2 halves of infrastrcture + support, and then all the applications development stuff, but all came under the umbrella of IS.
 
Ev0 said:
Where I was previously the dept was known as Information Services, which was then broken down into 2 halves of infrastrcture + support, and then all the applications development stuff, but all came under the umbrella of IS.
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This is exactly how it is in my dept.

In the context of the OP I'd say it was directly interchangeable with IT, I'd say if it's in the same advert as SMS it suggests that it's a 1st/2nd line role rather than specifically one or the other.
 
Feek said:
I hate SCCM, the trouble we have getting the client installed on some PCs.
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It can be a pig to get setup, get it wrong and you'll suffer the pain of trying to fix it.

My contract role was actually to come in and fix an SMS implementation that a previous contractor got wrong. It was a huge mess :( Good for me though :)
 
Don't worry about not knowing acronyms.

It's becoming increasingly common for popular acronyms to have completely different meanings:
SAN - Storage Area Network
SAN - Subject Alternative Name (In relation to certificates)
SAN - System Area Network
 
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