A Google Earth for your network? – Paglo, interesting idea, but could go places? November 27th, 2007

Recently I have been doing lots of work in the area of asset management. Its a pain in the ass but it is necessary for any business to carry it out especially after a period of growth.

At the moment I am using the excellent Novell ZENworks Asset Management software. I’ve used many asset management solutions over the past few years. Some were great at windows, some at UNIX based systems, but some just plain weird and crap (I think Dell just acquired them *cough*). I won’t go into the wonderfulness that is ZAM (like Unix and Windows management), go and download a free trial for yourself, its not difficult to setup and runs itself quite well with little interaction required.

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