TagVault.org's Anniversary
By Howard Hastings - Chairman of the Board of TagVault.org
TagVault's anniverary: a New Year, a New Decade, a New Era for Software Management!
As most of you know, our community has been working for many years to establish a standardized means to identify software accurately and consistently. Well, all of that diligence finally paid off when ISO/IEC 19770-2 was approved and published last November, 2009.
Obviously, those of us involved with bringing TagVault.org into being on February 28, 2009 felt the time was right and necessary for creation of an independent organization to certify 19770-2 software identification (SWID) tags and act as a single voice of the community to fuel adoption of the standard.
For the first time we have the means to accurately and consistently identify the software products installed on our computing systems. Beyond giving us the visibility for IT management we always desired (and assumed should be there all along), we’ll finally be able to confidently monitor our licensing situation.
IAITAM Annual Conference 2009 – a Community Moving Ahead!
By Howard Hastings - Chairman of the Board of TagVault.org
Why TagVault.org? And Why Now?
By Howard Hastings - Chairman of the Board of TagVault.org
When I started in IT we only had mainframes. Those of us managing these systems knew exactly what software was installed, and understood the contracts including all the critical licensing terms and conditions – it was a key part of our jobs. That was long ago and things have changed dramatically since then ... but not always for the better!
