Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
For every IT organization, IT asset management (ITAM) is truly a “need to have” these days for reasons including compliance and cost containment. A fundamental part of ITAM is software asset management (SAM). SAM applies to everyone from your regional bank to a Fortune 500 global company. Every organization is using some type of software,…
The buzz word of the day in the industry is “cloud”. Executives are hearing the word at every turn. They associate the word with spending less, smaller IT departments, and promises of no hassles. Sounds great for the organization and everyone should jump right on board, right? No! Anyone that has been around the industry…
In August’s column I wrote about next-generation asset management (NGAM), EMA’s term for a service-centric model for asset management. In this model service management, configuration management, compliance, change management and capacity planning are brought together from a dollars-and-cents perspective. NGAM fits in fairly well with ITIL v3’s approach to lifecycle asset management, where asset management…
Next-generation asset management (NGAM) was conceived around the idea that enterprise IT is becoming more and more of a business as business services and IT services become more closely intertwined. At its core, the NGAM vision is a simple one: IT services are “products” and so all capex and opex assets associated with IT are…