ITAM Industry News Round-Up

ITAM News & Analysis

14 January 2010

2 minute read

EVENTS
- SWID Technologies – ‘Best Practices – The Process of Identifying Your Software Assets’
- SWID Technologies – ‘How to get significant value from Microsoft’s SMS discovery data’
- TagVault – ‘Lower Costs with Certified Software Identification Tags’
- IET Solutions – ‘Decrease Your Software Costs with Entitlement-based Software Asset Management
- Siwel Consulting – Best Practices for Software Contract Negotiations

INDUSTRY NEWS
- New case studies from ITAM Vendor Certero including Nice-Pak International, Gentoo Group and Xentrall
- Express Metrix – Preview of Express Software Manager 9.5
- BigFix – 2010 IT Dinosaur Contest – Video your failing IT Systems Management System and win $1,000. (Nice idea for a contest but try getting that past your boss for approval – “I’m just going to take a video of our expensive system that doesn’t work and tell the world about it so I can win $1,000 – Is that OK?”)
- KACE – Reveals Top 2010 Predictions In Systems Management – “Windows 7 Helps the Industry Forget Vista While Apple Strengthens Its Grip on the Enterprise”
- Gartner – Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organizations and Users in 2010 and Beyond
  - “In 2012, 60 percent of a new PC’s total life greenhouse gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on.”
  - “By 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon remediation costs.”
  - “By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.”
- Converge – Converge expands Singapore facility to provide IT asset disposition services