Asset Management

Inventory collection and inventory management are a few of the basic disciplines for lowering PC lifecycle costs. Asset Depot is a cost-effective and resource-effective inventory solution that complements and leverages the customer's investment in IBM PC technologies. This paper describes the purpose of Asset Depot and explains the details of Asset Depot server installation. It discusses how to use Asset Depot to the best advantage, and provide usage scenarios and best practices. It also covers customization and advanced usage, and concludes with troubleshooting suggestions. tech news

In addition to strong ROI, Service Delivery Management requires a collaborative relationship between IT departments and business customers. In this second of four audiocasts, Robert McNeill, Senior Analyst at Forrester and Mike Micucci, VP of Marketing at ManageStar, will look at how to organize for successful Service Delivery Management, and how to overcome challenges with implementation across IT, Facilities and into the Business. You will gain insight into the following: How to organize your business for Service Delivery Management; How to identify key services to start with; How to communicate the business imperative for Service Delivery Management, and key components: reporting, SLAs, single entry point in service catalog, asset management strategies, leading processes. Join ManageStar at 10:30am PT on October 12th for this live event. tech news

Variable capacity (e.g., OnDemand) is increasing in visibility as IT organizations (ITOs) strive to align IT services with business imperatives. With a business perception that moving IT cost from fixed to variable will result in lower IT costs, more issues around trust and credibility will appear if a full understanding of baseline costs is not delivered in the new variable environment. Asset management programs facilitate the ability to prepare, deploy, and maintain variable-capacity technology in a cost-efficient manner. As ITOs consider becoming more adaptive, the ability to understand the aggregate cost ramifications of increasing and decreasing capacity becomes an IT imperative. tech news

This white paper is all about CA's management software. CA's Enterprise Infrastructure Management comprises four major systems: Unicenter for operations, BrightStor for storage, eTrust for security and AllFusion for life cycle management. All are built on a single set of common services and a common database environment (the MDB). They are supplemented by world-class processes and implementation support from CA Technology. tech news

This white paper explains the importance of software asset management in achieving software license compliance. To ensure software license compliance, organizations need to establish an effective software management system that enables them to manage software assets through their complete lifecycle - from purchase through retirement. Accurate and complete information about the IT asset base, along with an asset management process that covers all asset lifecycle activities, is required to eliminate wasteful asset management practices and effectively align IT services to the goals of the business. tech news