5/7/2023 0 Comments Red pill 1 2![]() ![]() ITAM (HAM) - accurate data also supports hardware life cycle management and allows you to forecast and budget future spend when you know warranty or maintenance end dates.ITAM (SAM) - proactive discovery ensures you have accurate data to feed into the SAM tool, meaning correct license position, reduced exposure of non-compliance and identification of cost savings.In addition the ability of IT to be proactive when delivering services to its customers is reduced.Įnter the red pill, (Discovery), now this is no magical red pill, it won’t solve all your problems (it did after all introduce all sorts of other problems for Neo) but it will start you on a journey to Wonderland, towards visibility, accurate security compliance and proactive service delivery and the nirvana that many customers want - Enterprise Fiscal Accountability, the ability to cross charge within the organisation.ĭiscovery is seen as too hard because the fact is to obtain meaningful data, proactive discovery of your network and devices needs certain access to the network and endpoints which means allowing exceptions for the discovery tool to be effective, but the benefits this returns to the organisation are many, four such areas that directly benefit are: We are hampered from a finance perspective as we are not empowered to make informed decisions on future spend, and budgets. Nothing more.”īack on topic, we can take the blue pill and stay in the dark, blissfully unaware that we lack visibility into the IT landscape which leaves us exposed to license audits, financial accountability, as well as security risk and compliance. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. “You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. A great quote from one of my favourite movies and despite the fact it is used a lot in different contexts, I like how relevant it is to the topic of Discovery: ![]()
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