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Shadow IT – Threat or Opportunity

by Russell Wood on October 2018

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 which have been in place for years. So, is this the biggest threat to the traditional IT department has ever faced; and to be honest does that matter if people are … [Read more...]

Thinking Differently: How Asset Vision Has Been Able to Deliver 101 Releases in 7 Years

by Bruce Aboudara on October 2018

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 IT cost related issues. So as such, it does all the things that you would expect any platform in that market to do. However, it offers integration capabilities and it offers an SDK … [Read more...]

Why Switch to a Hosted Datacenter

by Bruce Aboudara on October 2018

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 is Accenture. They are 85% of the way through their journey to put 90% of the company's IT infrastructure into the cloud. Why have we seen this growth? According to Nick Youell, Senior Vice … [Read more...]

Total Recall: Knowing Exactly What’s Going on in Your AWS or Azure Estate

by Pam Risch on September 2018

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 a credit card or on-line provisioning, it is easy to create ghost towns of unused or underutilized resources. These are challenges we have considered for some time at Scalable. This is largely driven by … [Read more...]

Seven Core Features to an Effective IT Asset Management Program

by Bruce Aboudara on September 2018

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, I would suggest the following for consideration. These first two are foundational because if you cannot trust your data then everything that follows … [Read more...]

How Will Higher Interest Rates Affect Corporate IT Spending

by John Jertson on September 2018

Along with the certainties in life like death and taxes, companies will always be borrowing money. Over the past 9 years, the Fed has set interest rates at historic lows. Companies took advantage of these low interest rates to expand their business and make significant investments. Even hugely profitable companies like Apple borrowed money because it was so cheap to do so. But what happens when it is more expensive to borrow money now than it was 2 years ago? Companies will either have to … [Read more...]

How Global Trade Tensions Could Disrupt Your IT Costs

by John Jertson on August 2018

With global trade tensions and uncertainty looming over the American political environment and its geopolitical views, let's focus on how tariffs could affect an enterprise's hardware and software costs. According to the New York Times, the White House has assured Apple and other American IT providers that no new tariffs will be created. However, if things change and tariffs are enacted, what could be their impact? Tariff Impacts to IT Departments Laptop costs will rise. Most parts of … [Read more...]

Using Discovery Data for Change Management

by Russell Wood on August 2018

Change Management has always been one of the hardest processes to successfully implement within an IT estate. Implement it badly, and staff can see it as an unnecessary burden or even a blocker to being able to do their jobs. Confidence in data is normally low. How many times have you seen somebody with their own spreadsheet as they don't trust the standard dataset? Lots of companies who are looking for an easier way to streamline their change management functions look at discovery data in … [Read more...]

My Five Favorite Data Points

by Will Degener on July 2018

Anyone who has witnessed an Asset Vision product demonstration delivered by me will have heard the phrase "My Five Favorite Data Points." I can't recall exactly when I first fostered this phrase, but the sentiment has been around from the moment I engaged with my first customer on behalf of Scalable Software. These preferred pieces of information (with examples) are: Who Used ("Will Degener") What Software ("MS Word") From Where ("His Laptop") For How Long ("32 Minutes") How Intensely … [Read more...]

IT Asset Discovery and Inventory 5 Reasons to Go Agentless

by Bruce Aboudara on June 2018

We are all very familiar with software agents. Many enterprise software tools have their own need for one that is generally unique to their application. These agents are useful as they tend to act on the environment and run without continuous supervision, while transmitting data or performing some function essential to the system it resides on. But there are downsides depending on the use case. There are of course always InfoSec concerns about introducing another agent. But they also require … [Read more...]

Shadow IT – Threat or Opportunity

Thinking Differently: How Asset Vision Has Been Able to Deliver 101 Releases in 7 Years

Why Switch to a Hosted Datacenter

Total Recall: Knowing Exactly What’s Going on in Your AWS or Azure Estate

Seven Core Features to an Effective IT Asset Management Program

How Will Higher Interest Rates Affect Corporate IT Spending

How Global Trade Tensions Could Disrupt Your IT Costs

Using Discovery Data for Change Management

My Five Favorite Data Points

IT Asset Discovery and Inventory 5 Reasons to Go Agentless

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