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How to use ITAM to support your IT support game

Historically IT asset management (ITAM) is the practice that was forgotten about by IT service management (ITSM) practitioners because it wasn’t considered a “core” ITIL process. This changed with the publication of ITIL 4, and now ITAM sits firmly in the ITIL management practice section of the service value stream. Done well, ITAM can help organizations to manage, control and support their IT services.

How to Keep Track of the Fixed Asset Movement at Different Locations?

The construction Industry is an asset-intensive industry. It is full of assets and equipment and each organization in the construction industry has equipment in abundance. Moreover, for project work, Organization sends the assets and equipment to various locations. When pieces of equipment are in distinct locations, keeping track of asset movement becomes complicated.

What Are the Equipment Management Best Practices?

Equipment management does not always mean providing maintenance when it is broken. It includes lots of activities that need to be done regularly. However, it becomes quite hectic when there are pieces of equipment in abundance. For equipment managers in the construction industry, it is essential to know which equipment is required at which location. So that, no work operation is halted. This is where equipment management software comes into play!

Consequences of Asset Thefts in an Organization

Imagine while the maintenance team working on some work order and they require a specific type of equipment, but they do not find it. Now the work is halted, and everyone has started looking for this required equipment. But they do not find it. These types of scenarios are quite common in all sectors. Now either asset theft occurred, or someone placed an asset in the wrong place.

Described Asset Tracking Best Practices in an Organization

Organizations provide costly equipment to their employees so that they do their work more efficiently. These assets have parts that are costly as well. These costly pieces of equipment need to be maintained regularly otherwise machine performance and efficiency will decrease and parts of the machine will stop working and you will need to replace those parts. This entire process will be costly! That is why you need to keep track of assets and proper asset tracking is essential.

Optimize Browser Experience with Ivanti Browser Manager

What do you picture when you think of the Everywhere Workplace? Your home office, beloved pet curled up at your feet, coffee brewing in the next room? Or maybe working in the mountains or at the seashore or some other idyllic location? There’s more to the Everywhere Workplace than exotic work settings.

MSP Live Chat: Feeling Lucky? Reducing Your MSP's Biggest Risks

Replay this special St. Patrick's Day edition of our MSP Live Chats! Hear candid conversations about the biggest risks facing MSP owners today — including which risky bets on growth you should avoid AND which to take! Select attendees were also given a chance to test their luck on the "Wheel of MSP Misfortune" to win a $25, $50, or $100 Amazon Gift Card. Special guests on our panel for this MSP Live Chat included Tom Lawrence (Lawrence Technology Services) and Georg Dauterman (Valiant Technology).

How to Mitigate CVE-2022-0847 (The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability)

Dirty Pipe vulnerability is a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows the ability of non-privileged users to overwrite read-only files. The vulnerability is due to an uninitialized “pipe_buffer.flags” variable, which overwrites any file contents in the page cache even if the file is not permitted to be written, immutable, or on a read-only mount, including CD-ROM mounts. The page cache is always writable by the kernel and writing to a pipe never checks any permissions.