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One of our editorial focuses for September is building the business case for ITAM. How do ITAM teams extend their reach within their organizations, build trust, and win the support (and budget) of the board? Expanding on their presentation at Wisdom EMEA 2022, Brandon Smeets from...
The ITAM Review is pleased to announce it has become a patron of the ITAM Forum, the global trade body for the advancement of the IT Asset Management industry. Many of you will be familiar with the ITAM Forum and the various collaborations we have done together. The ITAM Forum has...
What happened in ITAM over the summer? While the summer is typically a slow period for news, there were a few ITAM developments that are worth flagging. MinIo claims Nutanix breaches open-source rules and revokes licenses In a blog article published on StorageNewsletter.com,...
In this guest article, Andréa Jacquemin, CEO & Co-founder of Beamy, discusses why SaaS management requires much more of a cultural shift for large organisations than it does for SMEs, which are generally more agile due to having fewer legacy apps and can adopt SaaS more easily. The...
Further to the publication of the 2022 edition of the ITAM Salary Survey, we sat down with Henry Lee, the MD of LISA, the provider of on-demand and live licensing and ITAM training (and part of the ITAM Review family) to get his views on which skills he recommended to maximise earnings...
In this guest article, Astrid Wynne, Sustainability Lead at Techbuyer, givens an update on the status of the EU’s “Circular Economy for the Data Centre Industry” (CEDaCI) project, a four-and-a-half-year research project which looks at ways in which a circular approach to server...
What happened in the world of IT and ITAM in May 2022? Here’s a roundup of ITAM news stories during May 2022. IBM make ILMT more difficult Organisations are no longer allowed to manually update the software catalogue with ILMT, instead a full ILMT upgrade will need...
At the recent ITAM Forum Leadership Summit a group of industry leaders and practitioners discussed strategies for growing the industry over the next few years. Two key and linked themes emerged: that we need to think about what ITAM means for our stakeholders, and that we as a profession...
Microsoft have announced a range of changes to their European cloud licensing policies, aimed at reducing some of the heat they’ve been receiving from European cloud providers and industry bodies. Some of the licensing changes are pretty impactful but Brad Smith, Microsoft President...
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...