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Joined up infrastructure management

Written by CB on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 3:49 pm and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization.

We are often struck by the gulf that exists in most organizations between reality and the idealized picture of totally integrated infrastructure management, in which Change Management, Service Management, Incident and Problem Management and IT Asset Management all tie neatly together.
Underfunding, short horizons for planning, rapid organic growth forced by merger or acquisition, and the [...]

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When do spreadsheets run out of steam for ITAM?

Written by CB on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 at 5:15 pm and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management.

IT Asset Discovery - great start in ITAM - but only a start
Organizations adopt IT asset management disciplines for a wide variety of reasons, at different rates of maturity, and at different stages of the organization’s growth. The term IT asset management is used to refer to a broad spectrum of capability and achievement. Basic, but [...]

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Software Asset Management and Fiscal Responsibility

Written by CB on Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 at 5:45 pm and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management.

With Microsoft Enterprise agreements easily costing hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars / pounds / euros, it continues to sadden me that organizations will sign up without having any significant level of information regarding the Microsoft products that they have installed and actually use. When a 90 day Microsoft product usage survey to establish [...]

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Court ruling hikes pressure on Software Asset Management

Written by CB on Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 at 3:53 pm and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software License Compliance.

Has your organization ever sold a retired computer with applications still installed? Have you ever purchased software this way? A recent court ruling in Seattle has sent a chill down the spine of many IT Asset Managers around the world as the U.S. District Court upheld that software publishers can prevent their products from being [...]

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Non-compliance in licensing - it’s so easy!

Written by CB on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 4:50 pm and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software License Compliance.

As an IT professional, how bad do you think the non-compliance situation is in your organization? In very many organizations today, the top brass still hasn’t got the message on the potential cost savings from a strong SAM program, or on the risk reduction, or simply on the organization’s legal obligations to its suppliers as well [...]

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Should the ITAM office worry about ipads?

Written by CB on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 4:53 pm and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, ITSM, Innovation.

iPad as an IT asset: does the iPad make the grade in your organization?
Your organization may be one of those in which a section of employees, and users of the IT resource you provide or manage, have decided they could work more productively if they had iPads. Have they been able to present a clear [...]

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Pirated software: are you sure you are in the clear?

Written by CB on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at 9:32 am and filed under Asset Discovery, Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software License Compliance.

Software Asset Management: fundamentals for compliance
Many organizations are grappling with the twin problems of adequately identifying the software they have installed, and correctly interpreting the usage entitlements defined in the pages and pages of software licenses they hold. New laptops and netbooks will often come pre-loaded with suites of utilities - some of them from [...]

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License Management: Static Recording is not enough

Written by CB on Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 4:14 am and filed under GRC, Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance.

Software License Management for Compliance
Organizations which have successfully tackled the challenges of accurate software inventory often turn their attentions to getting to grips with the wide range of license documents they hold. For compliance, the fundamental question at any point in time is – “Have we got enough documented entitlement to cover the number of [...]

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Software License Compliance and ISO 19770-1

Written by CB on Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 10:41 am and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance. It has 1 comment.

Many of our customers are becoming more pro-active in the management of their software assets, driven by the twin concerns of shelf-ware and escalating vendor audit activity. No two organizations take precisely the same approach to the topic. Those just emerging from an expensive audit cycle are looking primarily to ensure that a repeat event will not be so [...]

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Software Licensing and Virtualization

Written by CB on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 1:41 pm and filed under Governance and Compliance, IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Software Asset Optimization, Software License Compliance.

I’ve just read through an article on this topic posted today by Tony Lock of Freeform Dynamics. It does a good job of highlighting areas that need to be considered by anyone already involved in, or contemplating, moving ahead with either server or desktop virtualization. In particular he points to the ease with which VMs [...]

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