Adopting Hardware Asset Management (HAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM) processes are essential for your company’s long-term growth. Working in tandem, they help you better manage your end‑customers’ IT budgets, drive down costs, boost efficiency and maximize ROI. Your data needs a Unified Source of Truth One of the biggest problems Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and
The State of Cybersecurity in a Digital Age With the increase in ransomware, malware and denial of service (DoS) attacks within the global IT economy, companies small and large are looking to bolster their defenses. According to the Insurance Journal, the proportion of cyberattacks has increased from 38% to 43% in the past year. The
August 2021 RAY ALLEN, Inc.’s CEO, Todd Ringleman, has been welcomed onto the ITAM Forum’s Board of Trustees! The Board of Trustees oversees the ITAM Forum and is made up of ITAM industry professionals who perform a governance role. These ITAM leaders help to push the industry forward, open new doors, and develop and deploy
IT networking environments are more complex than ever before. Though IT departments have been dealing with different types of IT assets for decades, the advent of virtualization and acceleration of digital migration has caused the number and type of assets to grow significantly. As a result, organizations are looking at a new, more complicated reality
June 2021 Ben Strickland, RAY ALLEN’s Senior Director of Product Management, won the ITAM Review’s “Professional of the Year” Excellence Award for 2021. Ben has received this award for his contributions to the ITAM industry, including: Leading the design, development, and business case for a next-generation ITAM system architectural design, now deployed in one of
Over the past decade, many of us have experienced new technology or new services that have changed our way of life. Companies like Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Uber and Microsoft have proven how new technology and innovative services can dramatically disrupt traditional markets, render current technology obsolete and reshape the buying decision of customers. These companies
May 2021 We are excited to announce that RAI is now a patron of the ITAM Forum! The ITAM Forum is an independent, not-for-profit professional body led by ITAM professionals for ITAM professionals. It aims to promote the ITAM discipline by focusing on the business benefits and value gained through ITAM and by creating, and
If you work in IT, you may have noticed that much of the IT industry is going through a technology transformation, migrating to hybrid environments that utilize on–premise hardware, virtualized machines and cloud computing to deliver agile technical solutions to the enterprise environment. In turn, this accelerated agility has dramatically increased the amount of asset data that needs to be managed, as hardware