You can find many articles on cloud computing on the web — the why’s and wherefores, the dos and don’ts — but what motivates companies to start using public clouds for compute services? This blog explores the pros and cons of cloud computing as shared to us by our customers. Cost This is often cited…
In my last post, I sketched out the case for investing in detailed planning before moving an estate to the cloud. This time I’d like to focus on the first step of that planning: answering the “What have we got?” question. To build a thorough understanding of your starting point, you need to gather accurate…
Prianto appointed as distribution partner Maidenhead, UK – 29th January 2019: Scalable Software, an innovator in SaaS based IT asset intelligence, has today announced that it will be strengthening its commitment to the UK market with the launch of its new Scalable Partner Network (SPN). The company has also appointed Prianto as its UK distribution…
If, like many others, your organization is currently moving its IT estates to the cloud, no doubt you’re looking forward to major cost savings and other benefits. However, success in achieving these benefits has some critical dependencies, the first of which is your ability to get an accurate, “deep dive” understanding of your organization’s existing…
While the technology industry has become consumed with the idea of “the journey to the cloud,” the realities underlying actual cloud migrations often get lost in industry hype and wishful thinking. The truth is that public and even private cloud options don’t represent the endpoint of a ‘journey’ so much as a series of vital…
The IT world lives in a constant state of change, a battle of wills between the people running IT and their internal customers. The latest battleground is Shadow IT in which anybody with just a credit card can purchase a new service, completely bypassing the IT department, procurement and all the carefully set up processes…
This week, Scalable released its 101st iteration of Asset Vision®, less than 7 years since its 1st. To celebrate this monumental achievement, we have decided to dive into what makes Asset Vision different than the other tools in the market. The Asset Vision platform is a hosted PAAS and is targeted at ITAM, ITL and…
According to CNBC, AWS and Azure have been growing at double-digit rates for the past few years. In 2008, Gartner had cloud spending coming in at about 5.5% of IT budgets. Now in 2018, Gartner has cloud spending at 19% and growing to 28% of enterprise spending by 2020. A good example of this trend…
Buying and running any kind of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capability is just like buying any other technology. Purchasers want to know what am I paying for, am I getting what I am paying for and where can I save money? Also, it is so easy to spin up virtualized machines, be it through…
The MoSCoW (‘must, should, could, won’t have’) analysis is a common approach to building RFPs to solicit proposals from IT Vendors. To use IT data and support efficient processes, an effective IT asset management program will be most effective if it provides most, if not all the following seven capabilities. In ascending order of importance,…
In case you missed it, Part 1 was about the Top 10 Activities to Getting Started in a SAM tool deployment. Several things can set back your Software Asset Management project. Hopefully, you’ve thought of them already, but just in case, I’ve detailed the most common and important issues I’ve encountered: Executive support. SAM projects…
Wait, before you shoot me down just let me explain. Software license management is now a major industry with many strong software companies competing around the same proposition. Everybody has heard the horror stories of audits and the major fines that have been levied against companies for either not having control over their licenses or…
