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	<description>Reality checks in IT Asset, Service and Security Management</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Vector at ITFMA Conference: RFID in Asset Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vector is delighted to have been invited to give a seminar presentation at this month&#8217;s conference of the IT Financial Manager&#8217;s Association, being held in Charleston, SC, July 13th - 17th. Kevin Kiley, our VP Sales and Business Development, will be talking about leveraging RFID&#8217;s real-time location tracking capability as part of a comprehensive IT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very useful thread on realities and challenges of SAM</title>
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		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/very-useful-thread-on-realities-and-challenges-of-sam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this thread this morning, started by Uttam Kumar at KPMG in India. The thread takes the lid off the situations Uttam regularly uncovers, with very variable attention given the demands of full software asset management. One contributor to the thread talks about the realities of achieving comprehensive software identification, and the importance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you do when you have just lost 75,000 customer details?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/Tw_ETW65NTg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/what-do-you-do-when-youve-just-lost-75000-customer-details/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, here we are again, this time with 75,000 customers&#8217; details out there somewhere. Could it have been prevented? If RFID tags had been attached, would the laptops have conveniently been taken past a sensor station - or did they leave through a point of forced entry anyway?  
What is particularly interesting here is the decision process that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Asset Optimization - right for today</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/_bQ6nPBsQ8o/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/software-asset-optimization-right-for-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, Vector has promoted the idea of Software Asset Optimization as a best practice  approach to managing software assets. Our view is that management of software assets is never properly &#8216;joined-up&#8217; until equal weight is given to the four elements of  

Quantifying what your organization really needs. So often, this is largely overlooked because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report on RoI expectations from IT Asset Management</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/u6KNqEAf_nA/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/new-report-on-roi-expectations-from-it-asset-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT Asset Management]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just found this synopsis of a study by Computer Economics of the increasing maturity of IT Asset Management.  The main report is only free to subscribers of the site, but the synopsis on its own contains useful comments on the scope and economic justifications for adopting IT Asset Management.
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		<title>Microsoft Audit: A Complete Response</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/EnBP8YSH9jA/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/microsoft-audit-a-complete-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been encouraging to hear that our Software Compliance and Optimization solution recently enabled another customer to respond comprehensively to the demands of a Microsoft license audit. With over 2,000+ PCs highly dispersed across the US, it was necessary to provide evidence of reliable and recent identification of every deployment of Windows, Office and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Unpleasant surprises” can be avoided, saving thousands</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/aPrNUh3sYMQ/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/unpleasant-surprises-can-be-avoided-saving-thousands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 21:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read, with interest, this blog post which claims many business are finding BSA and SIIA audits costing them thousands because of settlement claims.
The post says expectations of some companies as to the settlement figure is far too low, resulting in &#8220;unpleasant surprises&#8221;.
These can be avoid though, as can audits in the first place, through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counting installs is not enough for software license audit</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/HLbYzaJADMw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/counting-installs-is-not-enough-for-software-license-audit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 20:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=62</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard last week about an organization that had been asked by a major software supplier to cooperate with an audit. Some time later, the organization produced a tally of the total copies installed of each of the supplier&#8217;s applications. Turns out, that&#8217;s never going to be enough. Unless maintenance is totally up to date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding audit hassles with license optimization</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/dDloiz67Ob8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/avoiding-audit-requests-with-license-optimization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent press release, Robert J. Scott of Scott &#38; Scott, LLP highlighted what his organization feels to be some common mistakes that companies make when presented with an audit request from BSA, SIIA or a software vendor. He lists -


Failure to compile and produce accurate installation information. 
Relying on internal IT staff to respond to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Agreement Renewal Coming Up? Get Smart!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VectorNetworks/~3/nZxpkAuufI0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/microsoft-agreement-renewal-coming-up-get-smart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CB</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Software Asset Optimization]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vector-networks.com/blog/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well known Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley alerts us to a new report from Microsoft Directions with some very useful observations for any organization interested in reducing its annual spend on Microsoft renewals.
The negotation process to minimize that spend is going to be illuminated and strengthened for the end-user organization if they have clear information on [...]]]></description>
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