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IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is of increasing importance to technology governance teams, including ITAM teams. Recent high profile court cases have shown the considerable impact breaches of ITAD-related legislation can lead to, including fines, class action lawsuits, and negative reputational...
Snow on demand Snow now available via SaaS ITAM industry veteran Snow has quietly released a SaaS version of their offering. Snow writes: “Introducing Snow Atlas, the first integrated, cloud-native platform built to help organizations discover, monitor and optimize their technology...
Deloitte has published the results of a global ITAM survey. It’s a fascinating insight into modern ITAM and is probably the largest study of it’s type I’ve seen whilst writing for the ITAM Review (2,500 across 18 countries), with most senior respondents (Nearly 1/3 Board member,...
Gartner has updated their Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Managed Services. Managed service providers help customers with some of the heavy lifting involved in delivering ITAM within an organisation. The better providers help customer use the information gleaned to inform...
Committee of Experts – volunteers required Get involved. Join the Committee of Experts. Join your peers to help formulate what the certification scheme will look like and how conformity will be measured. Raising the profile of ITAM We all know that ISO 19770 is very useful...
Back in December 2020, the voluntary group that creates the 19770 family of standards asked for feedback from the ITAM community as it began developing guidance for how to implement ITAM. See “Poll reveals strong interest in 19770 certification.” Specifically, the request...
Cloud conduct principles – realistic? April 2021 saw the release of “Ten Principles of Fair Software Licensing for Cloud Customers” by Cigref and CISPE – an attempt to bring some control and guidelines to how on-premises licenses are used in public cloud environments. Who...
Audits, acquisitions, and lawsuits There is always something happening somewhere and keeping track of it all can be, to say the least, difficult! Our ITAM industry news round ups aim to cover some of the important and interesting developments you may have missed, to help keep you...
This article has been contributed by Astrid Wynne Rogers of Techbuyer. European international research project Circular Economy in the Data Centre Industry (CEDaCI) was granted an additional 1.245m Euros to extend its work into three more European countries in March. The project...
ITAM and IaaS: Better together Multi Cloud Hydra: Flexera’s state of cloud report found that 92% of organisations are using multi-cloud…but only 33% are using multi-cloud management tools. Image Credit Flexera recently released their “State of Cloud 2021” report and, ahead...