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Our USA conference 2019 was awesome. I always enjoy myself at our conferences, but this has definitely set the bar high for all future events! Training We flew over to sunny Florida and kicked off with our licensing training “pre-day” which, I’m pleased to say, went brilliantly....
There are many new areas of technology being talked about these days and, as an ITAM manager, it isn’t always easy to fully understand what they are and how they will impact the world of IT asset management. Security as an ITAM stakeholder With the growing links between ITAM and...
1. You’re going to need a cup of this after dealing with Java! Oracle announced in 2018 that updates for Java 8 would become chargeable from January 2019, meaning organisations wishing to continue receiving updates for Java SE 8 must do something. It is Oracle’s preference...
Equifax, one of the largest credit agencies in the US, was the subject of a hack in 2017 that left over 148 million consumers affected. It was known at the time that the cause was an unpatched Apache Struts (an open source framework for building Java web apps) server in the Equifax...
January 2019 saw the release of the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms. What have they looked at? Gartner have focused on platforms that can manage “multi-cloud” environments but interestingly, they seem to have a different view on what the term means. Gartner...
I’m pleased to announce that our first SAP licensing course is now live and available to LISA subscribers worldwide. This course has been created in partnership with Hans Moorkens of Fisher IT Asset Consulting – a company which is a long time ITAM Review partner, collaborator,...
Microsoft have announced changes to how organisations purchase Azure cloud services. Starting March 2019, Microsoft will introduce the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), a new offering for Azure services which will make the “licensing transaction process easier, more efficient...
Cloud computing continues to grow among businesses the world over, and Amazon have recently taken a big step to keep their offering front of mind for organisations. Amazon have long been the market leader for public cloud (aka IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)) with their Amazon...
F5 Networks, the long-standing networking and application services vendor, recently released the latest in a series of reports tracking the Internet of Things (IoT) security landscape; it makes for a fascinating, and worrying, read. It’s clear the pervasiveness of these internet...
Management and governance of cloud assets is a big, and growing, area for ITAM professionals to tackle. As more assets sit in the cloud, they need managing in more ways than ever before – making it a fantastic opportunity for ITAM to grow as a discipline and an industry. Equally,...