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A Clipboard is NOT an Effective ITAM Tool

Jul 30, 2013 |
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Is there a better way than manually handwriting notes in spreadsheets or on sticky notes on your clipboard to track your data center assets?  Yes, absolutely.  IT Asset Management (ITAM) tools are available to help you speed up the process of managing your IT assets.  The days of clipboards and losing sticky notes are over for your data center.

Although most ITAM solutions still involve a great deal of human interaction, their technology makes your efforts much easier.  You will no longer have to trace your finger through a hand-drawn diagram to route your network and power connections.  You will not have to worry about arbitrarily copying information from one spreadsheet to another.

ITAM solutions are made to simply asset management in the data center.  They track each move, add, change, and decommission in your data center.  They can document your power and network connections.  They track all functional information about your assets, including Rack location, manufacturer, model, RU, dimensions of the device, parent/child relationships, serial numbers, asset numbers, and barcode information.

Sean Cotter is President of Asset Vue, bringing 27 years of experience in IT leadership, business development, and entrepreneurship. He leads the company’s strategic direction and team, helping organizations simplify inventory management through RFID and barcode technology, automated data capture, and asset lifecycle tracking.

Sean’s expertise spans RFID and automatic identification technologies, process optimization, data center infrastructure management, and environmental monitoring. Before Asset Vue, he founded and grew an outsourced IT business and later served as Director of IT and CIO at the DVL Group. He has also taught Operations Management as an Adjunct Professor at West Chester University and holds a master’s degree in business from Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business.

His writing draws on this operational and technology experience to explore practical approaches to asset visibility, inventory accuracy, and more efficient IT asset management.

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