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Anglepoint Value Award Winners – 2022
Here at Anglepoint, we pride ourselves on our commitment to our core values: Client Success is Paramount, Relationships Matter, Focus, Keep Commitments, Candor, Selflessness, Lead the Evolution, and Love What We Do. Each quarter we nominate colleagues who have...

Anglepoint Value Award Winners- 2021
Here at Anglepoint, we pride ourselves on our commitment to our core values: Client Success is Paramount, Relationships Matter, Focus, Keep Commitments, Candor, Selflessness, Lead the Evolution, and Love What We Do. Each quarter we nominate colleagues who have...

Oracle Begins to Audit Java
Oracle has officially begun to audit their customers for Java. In order to get a better grip on what this means for our clients and the ITAM world at large it’s best to start at the beginning.How Did We Get Here?In early 2019 Oracle announced that it would begin...

How FinOps Can Help ITAM Get Its Head in the Cloud
This article is based on a webinar presented by Anglepoint’s president and ISO’s ITAM standards committee chair, Ron Brill. Please visit this link to watch the full version.We all know the growth in cloud infrastructure spending is accelerating. Gartner recently...

SAP Digital Access Adoption Program: What is it?
BackgroundThe Digital Access licensing model stems from indirect access/use and is intended to solve the challenges surrounding licensing 3rd party applications from a Named User perspective. Indirect access became a concern for many customers and was on SAP auditors’...

ITAM’s Essential Role in Security
Data breaches are predicted to cost the global economy 10.5 trillion dollars by 2025. But the results are already in. Cybersecurity has never been higher on the agendas of companies and governments for whom a big breach could spell ultimate disaster. In recent years,...

Windows ILMT Upgrade Path for Log4j Vulnerability
ILMT Server versions 9.2.18 through 9.2.25 can be upgraded to version 9.2.26 via the BigFix Console directly. The below instructions walk through how to prepare for and complete the upgrade using this method. Versions older than 9.2.18 require a manual upgrade to an...

Linux ILMT Upgrade Path for Log4j Vulnerability
ILMT Server versions 9.2.18 through 9.2.25 can be upgraded to version 9.2.26 via the BigFix Console directly. ILMT versions older than 9.2.18 require a manual upgrade to an intermediate ILMT version and then another upgrade to the latest version, which is outside the...

Log4j Remediation Steps for ILMT and BigFix Inventory Vulnerability
IBM sent out a notification warning of a recently identified vulnerability allowing unauthenticated remote access via the Log4j Java library. This flaw affects the VM Manager Tool (versions 9.2.21 - 9.2.25) within BigFix Inventory and ILMT. The VM Manager Tool is...

SAM tools & IBM sub-capacity reporting
Nearly all IBM customers find that sub-capacity licensing is a highly preferable way to license IBM’s Processor Value Unit/Resource Value Unit, Managed Activated Processor Core/Virtual Processor Core (PVU/RVU MAPC/VPC) based products. Sub-capacity licensing has...