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Many customers report that the number of software audits requested by publishers has risen dramatically over the past several years. At best, this proves inconvenient for customers that have [...]

It’s not every day you find $21,000 lying around your office. And no, we’re not talking about fixing improper software licensing or avoiding a ransomware attack. We’re talking about your [...]

Out with the old, in with the new, right? Let’s adjust that adage a bit: Securely dispose of the old, and in with the new. Asset recovery – the proper disposal or recycling of hardware devices [...]

For years, organizations have worked on a 3- or 4-year hardware refresh cycle – a timeframe that has become the conventional wisdom. But that conventional wisdom may no longer be [...]

Lost laptops. Unused software licenses. Ghost assets. For too many organizations, these IT failures are really a failure of IT asset management (ITAM). In these companies, hardware and software [...]

Many organizations struggle to keep up with more than just the owned versus deployed positions of their software licensing; additional entitlements, such as software maintenance, are often [...]

It’s 11 o’clock. Do you know where your laptops are? A misplaced laptop is no surprise to IT – many a laptop has been left in a public place or lost in plain sight on shelves or in drawers. [...]

Looking back on 2014, it’s clear to us that IT asset management (ITAM), and more specifically software licensing, was a top priority for many organizations. We published 93 posts in 2014, and [...]

If you're like most organizations, it's been a while since your last self-audit. A survey we conducted found that out of 102 IT admins and executives, 56 percent said their company hadn't [...]

This post is part of a three-part series on ghost assets. In my last two posts, I told the frightening tale of ghost assets, the once lively pieces of an IT department's infrastructure that [...]