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Microsoft have announced more changes to their Software Assurance program – this time its the 24×7 Problem Resolution Support that is on the chopping block. 24×7 support will be retired/killed off/ended as of February 1, 2023. Historically, access to 24×7 support has been...
In this podcast, I talk to Simon Leuty – founder of Livingstone Group and veteran of the ITAM industry. Once we got talking, we almost couldn’t stop (very much like some ITAM Pringles!) so we’ve got an action-packed 48 minutes of ITAM goodness for you here. We discuss a range...
Whatever Microsoft can do, Adobe can do too, right? April 27th, 2022 sees the introduction of Adobe price increases of 4-7% for Adobe Creative Cloud products in 36 countries. Just as with Microsoft, the justification for the increase is new apps and features including: 1TB per license...
In this latest ITAM Review podcast, I speak with Wouter Deceuninck & Diederik Van Der Sijpe from Deloitte about all things ITAM & FinOps. Both Diederik and Wouter have extensive ITAM experience and have been working with organisations as they move to the cloud, and I have...
FinOps is another one of those evolving IT trends that is increasingly scanning across the ITAM manager’s radar – in fact we ran a session on it at our recent Wisdom North America 2022 event because of this. Successfully bridging the gap between ITAM & FinOps will...
This article was written in conjunction with Jason Keogh, Field CTO, at 1E. DEX. Digital Employee eXperience. It’s not a new buzzword – it is THE new buzzword. You may not have heard of it but, if you work in ANY area of IT, DEX is a mainstay of your job. What could a partnership...
‘Vitado by Certero’ is a new proposition by the ITAM solutions vendor Certero for managing and optimising multi-cloud costs. Initially focusing on the market leaders AWS and Azure (but later Google Cloud Platform and others), Vitado sets its sights on helping businesses prevent...
Flexera have released the latest edition of their annual “State of the Cloud” report and, as always, it gives some great insights into the growth, changes, and advances within the world of cloud – an area of growing importance for pretty much every IT asset manager around the...
According to a global survey of 1,000+ IT professionals, computer hardware is still the top IT spending category, accounting for 30% of overall IT budgets. These are the headline findings from Spiceworks Ziff Davis’s (SWZD’s) latest Hardware Trends Report. The full report delves...
Microsoft have recently made Power Apps available under a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model, alongside the traditional “per user”/ “per app” options. The rationale behind Power Apps pay-as-you-go appears to be so Redmond can help organisations digitally transform faster while also...