• 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

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