1E recently released their 2016 Software Usage and Waste Report. We thought it useful to highlight some salient points and relate it back to our experience in the South African context. Software license waste is prevalent in all organisations of all sizes and...
I am a firm believer that software asset management (SAM) should be a strategic focus for any mature ICT department. The delivery and management of software is key to every digital strategy and those that do not manage this process effectively will fail to meet...
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) is causing much angst within IT departments. This is due to the fact that any infrastructure that holds personal information needs to be secure at all times. Failure to achieve POPI compliance may result in...
One of the most common myths and misconceptions around power management is wake on lan and it’s shortcomings. IT administrators still mistakenly believe that Wake on Lan is not ‘enabled’ on their network. As a result power management is not an...
The consumerisation of IT has been happening for a number of years now but it has yet to live up to all of the hype and promise. At face value, our use of software and cloud based services should be simple but in many respects our consumption of IT is as complicated...
Software spend contributes a significant chunk to the IT budget and to a large degree many organisations view this as a sunk cost and part of the plumbing. Smart organisations however are starting to question this spend as austerity measures become the norm and...
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Well done @Webex. Call logged, service restored and a personal phone call confirming all ok. Other large service orgs take note. #webex
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BSA Global Software Survey finds 33% of software deployed in SA in 2015 was not licensed. #1E solutions can fix this https://t.co/jT6jQjqDAI
