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This is part two of a three-part series by Beth Kaminski. Read part one here: finding qualified staff Welcome back as we continue our exploration of building ITAM teams (and biscuits!). In Part 1, we explored how terminology can have various meanings such as is the case with the word...
Whiteboard Wednesday Episode 14: What is Virtualisation? Virtual Machines, Hypervisors and Hosts explained Whiteboard Wednesday is me, a whiteboard and learning about all things IT Asset Management (ITAM), every Wednesday! This week, Virtualisation – What are virtual machines....
Rheaply, online platform for unused assets (Source: Rheaply demo) If you have ever suffered from the problem of having to buy an asset again, because you simply can’t find the original, then Rheaply is worth investigating. Born from underutilisation of assets in University environments,...
This article has been contributed by Beth Kaminski. This is part one of a three-part series by Beth Kaminski. In this first part, Beth addresses finding qualified staff and avoiding ambiguous job postings. I am very pleased that the ITAM Review has asked me to write a series of articles...
Whiteboard Wednesday Episode 13: IT Asset Disposal vs. IT Asset Disposition Whiteboard Wednesday is me, a whiteboard and learning about all things IT Asset Management (ITAM), every Wednesday! This week, ITAD – what’s the difference between IT Asset Disposal and IT Asset...
IT Asset Managers can be critical players in IT Governance. We have the data & insight needed to support informed decision-making and an estate-wide perspective on current priorities such as eliminating technical debt and improving end-user service. This is the value provided...
Micro Focus Academic Licensing There are three agreements available for Academic institutions: VLA for Education Academic License Agreement (ALA) School License Agreement (SLA) VLA for Education For this agreement, the rules are very similar to those for the commercial VLA which...
Image by NomeVisualizzato from Pixabay Back in April 2020, we reported on the U.S. lawsuit between Micro Focus and Express Scripts concerning alleged over-deployment of Micro Focus’s terminal emulation software. I initially looked at the pretrial summary judgment proceedings and...
Win one of three ITAM Review cotton polo shirts, whilst also contributing towards our Hardware Asset Management (HAM) community survey. Thanks to Claire Stanton (Pictured), one of three winners from our last giveaway in December, posing for a selfie in her ITAM Review polo shirt! Hardware...
e-waste tsunami This article has been contributed by Astrid Wynne Rogers of Techbuyer. Governments around the world are developing policies around the Circular Economy and the UK is no exception. In July 2020, it released a Circular Economy Package policy statement, saying the country...