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David Foxen, Software Asset Manager This article has been contributed by David Foxen, a Software Asset Manager in the UK Note: For the relevance of the article it is important to note that David is aged 23. When a teacher asks their students what they want to be when they grow...
This independent review of the Berlin release from ServiceNow is part of our 2012 SAM Tools Review. See all participants and terms of the review here. Executive Summary Elevator Pitch ITAM & ITSM repositories on a common platform Strengths One organically developed cloud...
Editor’s Note: News that an ITAM Review reader was fired due to a license shortfall attracted considerable interest and debate on the LinkedIn group. In this article the IT Asset Manager shares her story in her own words. If this situation arose in Europe my uneducated guess...
This article has been contributed by Kevin McGrew of AssetGurus. IT Asset Management consulting is an exercise in showing domain expertise to IT managers with no time, no budget and no tolerance for sales speak. Key to winning business is a familiarity with existing asset management...
Motivated Evangelist, Practical Fixer or Control Freak? What have you got in your ITAM toolkit? I receive quite a few ITAM related CVs across my desk in the average week, so I thought I would share what I consider to be the most redeeming qualities for ITAM professionals and how those...
RFID chip next to a grain of rice (via Wikipedia) This article has been contributed by Jackie Luo, CEO of E-ISG Asset Intelligence. RFID’s application in data centres is on the way to becoming a $1 billion business. A new survey released by Frost & Sullivan says that the RFID...
394 ITAM, SAM and Licensing Specialists in New York - want to connect? This is the 500th article published on the ITAM Review. To mark this milestone I thought I would take a look at the home cities of subscribers to the email newsletter. I have researched the countries of visitors...
"...ensures organisations are compliant when decommissioning laptops, before the device leaves the company’s control." The ITAM Review seeks to analyse and evaluate ‘real world use case scenario’ products and the firms that work to bring them to market at all...
How to Build Your ITAM Roadmap This article has been contributed by Mara Zeldin of Alsbridge. REGISTER FOR THE ITAM REVIEW NEWSLETTER TO DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDE AS A PDF. Introduction If you are like most IT professionals today you are under constant pressure to reduce costs. After...
I recently stumbled across this unique way of ensuring hard drives are destroyed. You might call it ‘labour intensive’, but at least you get to see the job done onsite and ensure no data leaks. Perhaps this is a new way for IT Asset Managers to get a good work out and...