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ITAM, SAM and Software Licensing continually evolve. And, at the same time, ITAM's remit continues to expand as the industry matures. What was cutting edge just a few years ago is ITAM bread-and-butter today. Keep you and your team up-to-date on the latest ITAM best practices.
  • How to establish accountability for cloud spend

    How to establish accountability for cloud spend

    This article has been contributed by Bali Kuchipudi of SoftwareONE.  How to establish accountability for cloud spend We all know that the cloud has vastly changed how we view our IT landscape, priorities and budgets. This ...
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  • A guide to Containers AKA What do Containers Contain?

    A guide to Containers AKA What do Containers Contain?

    What are Containers? Containers can be viewed as the next step in virtualisation. They’re smaller, faster and easier to work with than traditional Virtual Machines (VMs). A Virtual Machine is, as the name suggests, a complete ...
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  • Processor flaws cause Cyber Security panic, What can ITAM do to help?

    Processor flaws cause Cyber Security panic, What can ITAM do to help?

    Spectre and Meltdown, two major CPU based vulnerabilities recently discovered by Google’s “Project Zero” team, have caused quite the stir over the first couple of weeks of 2018. Their ability to allow attackers to steal sensitive ...
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  • Revised ISO SAM/ITAM Standard Published

    Revised ISO SAM/ITAM Standard Published

    This update on ISO has been provided by David Bicket. David writes. “Edition 3 of ISO/IEC 19770-1 for Software and IT Asset Management has recently been published by ISO. It is a major advance for SAM ...
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  • 15 hidden costs in SAM tool implementation

    15 hidden costs in SAM tool implementation

    This article is the first of a four part series by Martin Thompson of ITAM Review and Hugh Skingley of Livingstone. The series explores Building the Business Case for SAM Managed Services.  Part One – (This ...
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  • Quick guide to managing Amazon AWS costs

    Quick guide to managing Amazon AWS costs

    In a recent straw poll of ITAM Review readers it was found that only 27% of organisations have some form of portal or automated provisioning process for Amazon AWS. 34% of organisations allowed engineers and developers ...
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  • Jochen Hagenlocher: SAM's impact in 2018

    Jochen Hagenlocher: SAM's impact in 2018

    This article has been contributed by Jochen Hagenlocher, Head of SAM at a Fortune 100 Company, ITAM Review Professional of the year 2016, ISO/IEC 19770 WG21 member and SAM enthusiast.  In this article Jochen outlines his ...
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  • Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Best Practice Survey

    Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Best Practice Survey

    Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Best Practice Survey Following on from the recently published study into Hard Drive Disposal, I would now really appreciate your support into a survey into Hardware Asset Management best practice. Begin the ...
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  • Business planning and reporting are the weakest ITAM disciplines

    Business planning and reporting are the weakest ITAM disciplines

    We’ve just had our 200th organization go through our online 12 Box Maturity Assessment – so I thought I’d share the average scores across the 12 competency areas. Introduction The 12 Box Model from the ITAM ...
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