We’ve officially entered everyone’s favorite time of year—tax season. You can find me rifling through the stack of mail and records I’ve been hoarding over the past year, while my…
Secure Your IT Assets for an Optimal Return
What Is IT Asset Management?
Depending on the business, there’s a myriad of IT assets to keep track of and doing it manually can be taxing. An IT asset management system allows IT pros to…
Go HAM on Your ITAM Strategy by Avoiding These 6 Mistakes
Okay, now we have you thinking about ham and that delicious holiday meal on the horizon. While not quite as delicious, hardware asset management, or HAM, is something IT should…
3 Critical Data Points to IT Asset Tracking
As companies grow and mature, it’s easy to feel trapped in an IT asset mud pit. IT pros faced with increasing numbers of users, more complex systems, and a variety…
Powering Business Operations Through “Work From Home” — SolarWinds TechPod 026
As COVID-19 forces employees out of the office in masses, many IT departments have been tasked with keeping productivity high and entire organizations operational. How are IT leaders preparing, both…
6 Types of IT Assets Your CMDB Should Track
IT asset management (ITAM) and configuration management database (CMDB) are critical components of a service desk, playing a key role in how inventory within an organization is tracked and managed.…
How IT Asset Data Drives Better Employee Services
As an IT professional, you probably routinely witness new employees settle into their new role with a plethora of devices and software applications to get acquainted with. Everything is going…
The Essential IT Asset Management Checklist
As one of the 34 practices outlined in ITIL 4, IT asset management (ITAM) is one of the most practical undertakings your IT department can carry out this year. While…
Building a Complete Picture of IT Assets — SolarWinds TechPod 017
To maximize the benefits of business technology, IT asset management (ITAM) should have a strong relationship with service delivery. Over the years, ITAM has evolved beyond a spreadsheet of laptops…
Software License Management: 6 Steps to Prepare for an Audit
Issuing software licenses to employees is another one of those routine IT tasks that you may not think twice about. But what may go unnoticed is software titles employees install,…