In the Spotlight
le.The Federal ITAM spotlight is on the Department of Defense which was recently featured in CIO magazine in the article, “Asset Management Tools Root Out Unneeded Applications, Hardware.”
“The U.S. Department of Defense budgets $20 billion for information technology in a given year and no one person or spreadsheet or database keeps a running and accurate count of all the pieces of hardware and software in action.
That's not unusual for any large organization, which is why the asset management discipline emerged. The first step is figuring out what useful and not so useful computer gear is hanging off your network, then lay to rest those wasting time and money.
A project to do that at the U.S. Army has so far produced multimillion-dollar savings and now the DoD itself wants to replicate it, says Joe Paiva, a leader in the DoD responsible for IT portfolio management strategy and policy development.” Read full article
Last Reviewed 12/12/2008