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A quick round-up of ITAM industry news: UK SAM Services company Livingstone Technologies acquires USA SAM Services company Siwel. A great move – I’ve spoken to a number of Fortune 500 companies seeking the services of an independent provider (No commercial bias from selling SAM...
Campaign for Clear Licensing – Code of Conduct for Cloud Computing In 2014 the Campaign for Clear Licensing published a Software Audit Code of Conduct. This was an ITAM community effort, co-written by industry practitioners. It’s intended use was that if a customer must face an...
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...
Crowdsourced Favourites – Most read in 2018 We published 128 new articles in 2018, which were the most popular? Our most read article of 2018, with over 100K views, was the news that Oracle are to start charging for JavaThe gorilla in the ITSM market is muscling it’s...
Audit firms KPMG, EY, Deloitte and PWC are performing high value software audit work for their own statutory audit clients. The Financial Times reports that big four audit firms license audit work into their own audit client’s environments maybe a potential breach of UK industry...
Our 2018 User Survey results are in & our readers see an ITAM future of new reporting lines and new responsibilities. In order to get there, they envision new tool capabilities and have identified improvements required to processes and their own organisations. This article explores...
On September 27th Snow announced they had crossed the $100m milestone for revenue, citing growth in Cloud as the primary driver. They’re optimistic that the challenges in managing “As-A-Service” IT deployments will benefit them over the coming years, citing recent Gartner research...
Flexera yesterday (September 26, 2018) announced the purchase of RightScale, a leader in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management market. Market background Spending on public cloud – services such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure – is estimated to reach $56 billion...
Telma Rafael, SAP SME, Snow Software “SAP is rumoured to be changing their audit approach on how to classify users” I attended an interesting session at the BCS SAM networking group last night. The main topic of conversation was SAP, led by Snow’s subject matter expert...
What is Open Source? Open Source just means free, yes? No. Simply being free does not mean a piece of software is Open Source. The Open Source Initiative have an Open Source Definition, which is: Free redistribution Source Code included Derived Works allowed Integrity of the author’s...