BCS London offices are two minutes walk from Covent Garden WHAT IT Cost Optimization in an era of Virtualization: “Learn about new technologies and practices that will enable you to achieve IT cost optimization and lower the total cost of ownership of your server estate. If it is part of your remit to reduce costs, reduce non-compliance risk, or achieve IT optimization or transformation, this... 

"Migrating expensive, server software to shared services and cloud based infrastructure without a proper understanding of the risks involved will cost enterprises millions of dollars." Microsoft WPC (Worldwide Partner Conference) was held in July. I was delighted to be asked to speak at it. The session was entitled “Cloudy, with a chance of Virtualization” – and the audience were Microsoft... 

This is a guest post by Jason Keogh of iQuate. If you want to guest post on this blog please contact us. I’m delighted to say that I’ve been asked to become a regular contributor  to the ITAM Review as a guest blogger. This is the first, of hopefully many blog pieces to come. During 2012 I’ll be attending and speaking at, at least 8 ITAM/SAM conferences from around the world. I’ve recently... 

Cowardly Lion; Solve Fear, Solve the Problem In this informative session Jason Keogh from iQuate and Will Monin from VMware explore how to optimize Oracle licensing within VMware environments. Topics: How Oracle is licensed? Processors, Cores and Core Factors Hard vs. Soft Partitioning VMotion Virtualization Growth and Trends Why virtualizing Oracle is slower than other Vendors VMware’s Perspective... 

The results of the Inventory and Discovery Tools Group Test are now live. The vendors featured in this review are BDNA, FrontRange Solutions, HP, iQuate, Nexthink, Numara Software and ServiceNow. Please visit this page to view the results. In summary, The ITAM Review has flipped it’s business model, all information is free to access without registration Inventory and Discovery are fundamental... 

Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience A collection of links, news and updates from the ITAM Industry: BCS CMSG & SMSG Conference, 7 June 2011, London, UK Aspera & iQuate Webinar: The Power of Accurate Information, 8th June Numara Software Launch Migration Manager App-DNA Named Citrix Synergy Best of Show Award Winner SAManage Adds Mobile Access X-Formation: Activating... 

This is an interesting alliance between iQuate and Aspera. Irish tool vendor iQuate are making good inroads with their agentless discovery technology. German tool vendor Aspera have über-sophisticated license management technology but no dedicated inventory solution. Aspera must also be pleased with iQuate’s Oracle certification, since it effectively gives Aspera Oracle certification by proxy, a...