Software waste report exposes untapped cost savings
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...
POPI compliance and its impact on IT Operations
The POPI act is placing tremendous pressure on IT departments from a compliancy perspective. Granted there have been many false starts with this legislation but companies must comply and the financial consequences and reputational risk could be dire. Nomad provides a very elegant and quick win from a compliancy perspective and provides a double benefit of actually removing branch office servers as a consequence. Hence delivering large operational cost savings.
Do you know why you are wasting money on unused software?
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...
Top 10 reasons to adopt a Green IT strategy
After recently attending and presenting a paper at a conference around Green IT, it became overwhelmingly clear that all speakers were providing the same message and that the message by most delegates, was probably going to be ignored. I do think delegates were...
The automated desktop is not a myth
Cost reductions and automation are high on the agenda of many IT executives who are seeking to do more with ever diminishing IT budgets. Having been involved in IT service delivery, in particular IT outsourcing for much of my early career, I came up against the ‘cost...
The IT department’s carbon conundrum
Identifying and reporting emissions using non-financial data is a key deliverable for IT departments in the low carbon economy The...
Green agenda makes IT execs see red
Any which way you look at it, CIOs are under pressure. Budget cuts compounded by the depreciation of the rand, legislation like the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, and changing user and consumption habits have them firmly on the back foot. Add to this...
FNB deploys NightWatchman with Eskom rebates
First National Bank Chooses 1E to Lower Energy Consumption, Reduce Carbon Footprint and Is Pioneer in Qualifying for Rebates from Power Supplier South African financial institution deploys 1E NightWatchman Enterprise to become energy efficient and benefit from rebates...
Software vendor audits: Sasol embarks on optimizing software licenses on servers as well as desktops
Last week I spoke with Cobie Nel, IM Services: Manager Applications for Sasol Group Services, based in South Africa, on the complexities and challenges that a software vendor audit can present when a vendor comes knocking on the door. She has recently been under...
Almost 61 per cent of organisations do not monitor for unused software on servers, PCs and laptops
Although the number of software audits businesses are exposed to is on the increase, the majority of firms only have limited visibility into what software is actually being used across their IT estates, according to 1E research.. With businesses unable to pinpoint the...