IT Business Value: Three Paths IT Business Value: Three Paths For the last decade, tools to count and manage IT assets have been viewed as cost centers. Managing ITAM, UEM, CMDB, SAM and MDM tools was a necessary requirement to passing audits, maintaining compliance, and… Read More
Ready for Real-Time Compliance? Ready for Real-Time Compliance? What's even more challenging than periodic compliance? Real-time compliance. Many IT teams and CIOs view System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 compliance as a painful annual exercise. This is understandable. SOC-2 is a rigorous reporting… Read More
Remote Work: Managing Technology Sprawl Remote Work: Managing Technology Sprawl With remote work a reality for more employees and companies than ever before, technology has become far more critical as the glue that holds teams and businesses together. Even prior to COVID-19, remote work was… Read More
The Big Picture on IT Asset Management The Big Picture on IT Asset Management There are multiple, pervasive trends driving how enterprises interact with their IT ecosystem. These trends affect everyone’s day to day workflow, as well as any experience of their customers. Understanding the big picture that’s driving… Read More
Ransomware On The Rise: Is Your IT Organization Ready? Ransomware On The Rise: Is Your IT Organization Ready? One of the leading healthcare institutions fighting the COVID-19 scourge, the University of California at San Francisco, was shaken down by ransomware gangs in late June to the tune of $1.14 million dollars. A malicious… Read More
10 Questions to Ask About IT Assets and New Hire Onboarding 10 Questions to Ask About IT Assets and New Hire Onboarding Your IT onboarding and asset management processes may be killing your employee onboarding, employee retention and new hire productivity. Say what? Here’s the simple math. Onboarding is the first time a new hire is exposed… Read More
From Zero Trust to Zero Touch IT: Management Reality? From Zero Trust to Zero Touch IT: Management Reality? Last week I wrote about how the environment created by the COVID-19 crisis was forcing CIOs and CISOs to embrace Zero Trust when the entire workforce is suddenly remote. The flip side of Zero Trust… Read More
Zero Trust is the New Imperative Zero Trust is the New Imperative In the span of a week, Zero Trust went from a buzzword to a must-have. The COVID-19 crisis overnight converted vast swaths of enterprise, education and government into 100% remote organizations with massively distributed workforces.… Read More
Onboarding: The Sudden Rise of the New Normal Onboarding: The Sudden Rise of the New Normal Understanding the New Landscape of Remote Onboarding The requirements associated with onboarding a new employee can be a very smooth experience, somewhat uneven, or a complete cluster. And this is under normal circumstances. At the… Read More
Enterprise Technology Management: A Critical Enabler of IT Business Value Enterprise Technology Management: A Critical Enabler of IT Business Value Enterprise Technology Management as the Key to Maximum IT Value Enterprise Technology Management -- consolidation and integration of IT asset management (ITAM) tools and related resources -- may be the key to unlocking maximum IT… Read More
Announcing Some Big User Experience Improvements for Oomnitza Announcing Some Big User Experience Improvements for Oomnitza As a technology company, we recognize that our technology only works well if people love the user experience (UX). In that spirit, we strive to make Oomnitza as intuitive and user-friendly as possible. So we… Read More
Zero Trust Security Zero Trust Security Understanding the Zero Trust Security Model The Zero Trust security model is gaining traction in response to multiple disruptive factors, and transforming how enterprises view security. Today, organizations are deviating from contained network systems and… Read More