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Lyft & Amazon AWS Lyft, probably the best-known Uber rival, recently filed its IPO (Initial Public Offering) documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the S-1 Registration Document gives an insight into a company’s finances and throws up a couple of...
Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now in public preview. When it was first announced in October, I covered what we knew about the service but now we have more info around the pricing, I think it’s worth another look. What is it? In a nutshell, it is “VDIaaS” –...
Until recently the goal of EU “Ecodesign” directives was to focus on reducing energy consumption. Europeans have seen this in force on all sorts of devices from fridges to vacuum cleaners, it also includes IT equipment. Free ICT Europe was pleased to provide industry feedback...
Interested in finding out what’s running on your network but don’t have budget? Or maybe you’d like to verify the inventory your primary paid-for tool is providing? If so a good option is to deploy a free inventory tool. Modern tools and protocols can provide you...
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There are many new areas of technology being talked about these days and, as an ITAM manager, it isn’t always easy to fully understand what they are and how they will impact the world of IT asset management. Security as an ITAM stakeholder With the growing links between ITAM and...
Our recent user survey showed that ITAM is continuing to move from being a service management and operations-based admin team to a trusted C-Suite adviser. As our roles mature, we become less involved in the day-to-day grunt work of getting inventory working, reconciling usage and...
This article has been contributed by David Foxen Founder & Principal Consultant at SAM Beast Consulting DISCLAIMER, this focuses primarily on the cost savings element of ITAM rather than service or integration with other teams. I’d end-up writing a whole book if I included...
Cloud computing continues to grow among businesses the world over, and Amazon have recently taken a big step to keep their offering front of mind for organisations. Amazon have long been the market leader for public cloud (aka IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)) with their Amazon...
F5 Networks, the long-standing networking and application services vendor, recently released the latest in a series of reports tracking the Internet of Things (IoT) security landscape; it makes for a fascinating, and worrying, read. It’s clear the pervasiveness of these internet...
