Tachyon from 1E turns systems management on its head. You can think of Tachyon as the Google for your IT infrastructure.

Managing software in a large IT organisation is becoming increasingly important. The simple truth is that the internet of things proliferates new software and complexity which ultimately drives business and shareholder value. Software and the management thereof becomes increasingly important and a software asset management (SAM) program becomes business critical. Any vendor that tells you that they have the silver bullet to this complexity is quite honestly, in La La land.

1E recently released their Enterprise Windows 10 Migration report. The research was based on an online survey completed by more than 500 U.S IT decision makers and provides unique insight into the Windows 10 migration methods currently being employed by today’s enterprises.

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...

Few of us live without insurance. In a risk-averse society, the threat of future potential financial losses is too great for most of us to ignore. These policies largely take the form of life, household and medical insurance. If you do not see SAM as strategic, you should definitely be seeing it as an insurance policy.

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.

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 as ever. Much of this complication is driven by overly complex licensing models and usage metrics.

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...