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Cover Story
Conference Attendees Speak Out - Trends and Issues - Unappreciated and On the Forefront of Technology Innovation
By: Jenny Schuchert, Education Specialist for IAITAM
At the IAITAM Annual Conference this autumn, attendees were asked to answer a practitioner survey that gives a “state of the union” for the professionals conducting the day to day business practices of software and hardware asset management. Seventy-nine practitioners completed the survey during the conference and the results give an interesting view into the current state and the issues anticipated for 2010. Intended as a general overview of IT asset management issues and the awareness that these issues include every organization, practitioners were not asked to describe their organizations. Read More...
Feature Article
Red Flags Rule - Guidelines for Responding for Financial Institutions and Creditors
By: Brooks Hoffmann, CFO of LifeSpan Technology Recycling
Summary:
The Red Flags Rule was promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission and other federal agencies charged with overseeing compliance to the Financial Service Modernization Act (GLB), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA). It states that all Financial Institutions and others who are considered “Creditors” must:
- Identify in writing the areas of their operation where the personal information of their clients is at risk of unauthorized access;
- Develop written procedures to mitigate that risk;
- Detect unauthorized access if or when it happens.
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Is This a Winner? - Step - 1 Defining the Project Validity Review Process
By: Barb Rembiesa, President of IAITAM
Project Management can be defined as an organized and managed set of activities that result in the achievement of a unique and well-defined end-result of work product or deliverable. Resources are mobilized and deployed to perform the activities in a controlled fashion. A project, implicitly and by definition, has a definitive start and end. Therefore, a project differs from recurring operational activities that may be performed many times repeatedly in a typical corporate environment or those that require updates and tweaks as part of process improvement efforts. The Project Management Key Process Area defines those characteristics of a project team that are essential to successfully carry out the initiatives that are needed to meet the goals of the organization and the ITAM Program. Read More...
How New Schemes Effect You - Management Suite Licensing Changes
By: Rob Horwitz, Research Chair for Directions on Microsoft
Over the next few years, using System Center products to manage large numbers of virtual machines on servers containing more than two processors will get more expensive
Starting July 2009, Microsoft began offering two types of management suite licenses rather than one, the most important difference being the number of virtual machines (VMs) that can be managed. Both System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and the new Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) allow management of server workloads using Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager. For past and future customers managing servers with one or two processors, the changes are mostly price-neutral. However, some customers licensing larger servers will see substantial price increases, mostly in the form of rising future Software Assurance (SA) payments. Read More...
The Software Compliance Reporting Blues - The Fast and Economical Solution May Be a Hosted Software License Reconciliation Service
By: Ed Cartier, Marketing Director for xAssets US
By now it is no secret that IT asset management solutions and systems that calculate and report an organization’s degree of software license compliance (or lack thereof) are valuable assets to any IT operation. However, let’s be frank here, the economic times ain’t what they used to be. IT budgets have been slashed and programs have been cancelled or postponed across the board. Traditional ITAM and SAM systems have a reputation of being expensive and complex, putting new systems out of the reach of many organizations and companies. So, what are your options if you really need a solution right away?
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