In this podcast, ITAM Review’s Martin Thompson speaks with a variety of specialists from across the ITAM industry ahead of our Wisdom USA conference. This is an interesting conversation from different types of providers with different perspectives of the ITAM market. Listen to the...
This month’s Market Guide looks at Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB). These tools, usually maintained by network or security teams, are a key component in governing cloud deployments, particularly SaaS. Their purpose is to discover, monitor, control, and secure access between...
This article has been co-authored with Dusan Omercevic, CEO & Founder of Cleanshelf
Executive Summary
New research4 indicates that SaaS spending is topping $13k per employee per year. Of that spend, around $4k is wasted. This article outlines how strong stakeholder relationships...
I sat down with Patricia Adams, Senior Director of Strategy for Flexera, to talk about the cloud (primarily IaaS like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS), what it means for existing ITAM managers, and how it will shape the future of the industry.
Discussion topics include:
Cloud...
This article is the third of a four part series by AJ Witt of ITAM Review and Josh Brazee of Aspera. The series explores concepts & practical advice for managing Cloud deployments to minimise cost and risk whilst maximising value.
Part One – provides an overview of the cloud...
Amazon AWS is the market leader for IaaS, with an ever increasing number of companies spending a seemingly ever increasing amount on Amazon’s public cloud services – the most recent being reports that Apple spends $30,000,000 a month. Amazon AWS cloud cost management is key to...
Sophos, the British FTSE 250 security company, have launched a dedicated public cloud security product – Cloud Optix.
Cloud Security
As many benefits as the public cloud can provide, it can also offer an equal – perhaps greater – number of potential security threats. Managing...
What percentage of the UK FTSE 100 is doing SAM?
The ITAM Review Monthly Radio Show starring:
David “SAM Beast” Foxen
Danny “Soft and Cuddly” Begg
Barry “The Mercenary” Pilling
Rory “Process God” Canavan
Rich “Cantona” Gibbons
Stuart...
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...
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,...