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Orphaned Assets & Orphaned Applications Explained
ITAM Tips from the Trenches: Orphaned Assets & Orphaned Applications In this installment of our ITAM Tips from the Trenches series, Vice President of Anglepoint’s Software License Management department, Selina Baranowski, shares practical tips for great IT Asset...
Software Entitlement Use Rights
ITAM Tips from the Trenches: Software Entitlement Use Rights In this first installment of our ITAM Tips from the Trenches series, Anglepoint Senior Director, Zarra Leonte, shares practical tips for great IT Asset Management. Specifically, Zarra covers the essentials...
How to Maintain the Driver’s Seat During an Audit
Until his recent transition to Anglepiont, Ben Morgan had spent his career working for publishers—including Attachmate, Micro Focus, and Quest—as a senior member and leader of their License Compliance teams. Ben quickly gained a reputation for his firm negotiation...
Riding the Efficiency Wave of Floating License Management Episode
In the context of floating licenses, what is an average? This is the question that kept our guest, Paul Smith, up at night. His discovery: to measure an average, you need to know your denominator. And the only way to understand that, you must ask the end users. In the...
Why security is integral to ITAM (and vice versa): An Oracle Java case study
How ITAM & security should work together. June 15, 2022 | 1pm ET Most people are now aware that Oracle has changed its licensing rules for Java. What used to be free in most cases is now subject to license costs. Unfortunately, in an effort to save money on...
Pirated software: don’t let software vendors make you walk the plank!
Discovering & eliminating pirated software.Reserve your spot.Pirated software has serious legal, financial and security risks for organisations and it is estimated to...
Mainframe Licensing: The Power of a Proactive Approach
“Mainframe is dead.” That is not an uncommon phrase heard in our industry. But reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, if you were to look behind the curtain of our modern surge in cutting-edge technologies, you'd find that everything traces...
How to Establish a Successful, Long-Term ITAM Program
So many companies across every vertical mistakenly believe that an ITAM tool will be the silver bullet for all their problems. But a tool alone won’t solve the underlying issues plaguing your organization. In this episode, we speak with Chris Hayes, an all-around ITAM...
Demystifying Gartner Magic Quadrants
You may have heard of Gartner Magic Quadrants, but when you take a look at what’s behind the curtain, you gain a greater appreciation for how detailed and helpful this resource can be. In this episode, hosts Pete Larkin and Alison Fredrick interview Anglepoint’s Ron...
Virtual Containers: ITAM Best Practices and Licensing Considerations – Part II
In part I of this two-part article, our objective was to understand containers – what they are, how they came to be, and how they compare to other technologies. In part II, we will look at containers in the cloud and CaaS, asset management best practices, and...