Are you looking to maximize your software investments? Minimize legal risks? If you’re currently struggling with mismatched software assets in your IT environment, we have just the right solution for you.

The first step before implementing a Software Asset Management strategy is to see how the entire system is set up and interacted. IT Cloudmasters yields the best practices which unite the people, processes and technology to optimize the use of software across your organization. We assess the current SAM situations in your organization and procure your software licenses providing transparency in your assets. There’ll be no software installation and no trace of tool presence left in your environment. Our tools simply scan, gather and report on everything that exists in your IT environment – and we do all this at a rate of upto 1,000 servers per hour, making it possible for most enterprises to access this information with a single day.

Our trained SAM experts help you in controlling the costs as well as manage all business and legal risks. Our SAM licensing specialist are well known in the industry for their in-depth knowledge, recognized by the industry for making Microsoft license review simple, seamless, taking away the complexity from customers environments year after year.

The SAM (Software Asset Management) team will help you, every step of the way

Find

Find where you are

Decide

Decide where you want to be

reach

We'll help you reach there

compliance

Avoiding future risks by driving compliance

Our Life Cycle Approach to Software Asset Management

Compliance

With our trained SAM experts, we’ll help you in resolving any compliance issues with your vendors and avoid the possible vendor audits. We even help you in easy comparing of the current and future usage by establishing and monitoring your live software licenses in real time. This further helps you in identifying the compliance issues your organization has, if any.

Efficiency

Our SAM team will help you in providing a clear view of users, systems and software which is redundant or unnecessary, deployed across your estate. As a result, your organization will gain multiple benefits from any software assurance or get upgrade rights to keep it up-to-date. This also provides you to make use of unused licenses and avoid unnecessary purchases next time around.

Cost Savings

With our best-in-class SAM solutions, you can optimize the configuration of the licensing contracts your organization currently has. This will help your organization in bringing the spending under control. A leaner software estate will help you in reducing the IT support and maintenance costs significantly.

Control

Our Asset Management Platform solutions help you in taking full charge of your software estate and let your organization administer the systems easily and effectively.

Vendor management

We help your organization with licensing issues, procurement or training, with our vast experience and positioning of software vendors. We ensure you to get the best outcome and defer vendor audits wherever needed.

Server Optimization

Server Optimization Assessment/ Azure Cloud Readiness

With this assessment technical deep dive service, we help you in getting the most out of your server workloads and application while providing you with insights on business, technology and licensing benefits of moving them to cloud. Our Server Optimization Assessment is designed in a unique way which will help companies cross the divide in an easy way. With proper data analysis and specialized knowledge, we provide a complete diagnostics of our business and create a deployment strategy for your success. By evaluating the overall server state, we help in optimizing your current server environment and outlined the most effective digital transformation strategy.
Server Optimization / Azure readiness overview:

Benefits:

  • Microsoft Window Server / Microsoft SQL Server inventory & optimization in depth intelligence (RAM, Storage, CPU, IoPS, Throughput, NIC & storage details)
  • Database sizing
  • Application dependency mapping down to the process level, providing insights about various applications known and unknown.
  • Azure cost estimations modeling across multiple licensing options, RI & regions.
  • Details for total in scope server count including configuration and compute details
  • Account of total in scope SQL footprint including configuration and compute details
  • Categorize all in scope servers by workload type (DR, Non-Prod, Test / Dev) using tags
  • Categorize all scope servers by application
  • Prioritization on workloads and applications based on candidates for Azure migrations
  • Identify servers to decommission
  • Identify servers that will remain on-premises
  • Azure consumption estimates based multiple dimensions with focus on application / workload
  • As-is (Inventory data)
  • Predicted resourcing requirements
  • Architecture and service optimization (Inventory and including cybersecurity insights)
  • Considerations for AHB and RI

Cloud Productivity

Cloud Productivity Assessment

• Our Microsoft Azure, Modern Work Place Assessment provides the customers with a complete analysis of their organization’s cloud capabilities. Our experts help in simplifying the cloud adoption for your company and reduce the risks. We offer your business a comprehensive analysis of the desktops and end user productivity tools which help in preparing your business for Cloud. We also provide you insights on your business, cost, and technology benefits of moving your workloads to the Cloud as well as recommendations about how to optimize Cloud licensing.

Benefits:

  • Provides a clear prioritization of what’s ready to migrate
  • Helps your business in identifying how Cloud-based scalability can increase your organization’s agility.
  • Helps in improving cost management by customizing subscription models.
  • Provides your business with insights on cost and technology benefits.

Cyber Security

Cyber Security Assessment

With the increasing use of technology, the risk of breaching cyber security has also rapidly increased. Regular cyber security testing is required to avoid any sort of risk or breaching. This is where IT Cloudmasters come in the picture. Our cyber security assessment services are exclusively designed help our customers identify the weaknesses that are pertaining in the infrastructure of the organization.

Benefits:

  • Insights into aging hardware, desktops and servers
  • Microsoft Window /SQL End of Support implications as dates are around the corner.
  • Password and patch management.

Baseline Assessment

Baseline Assessment

Microsoft Baseline Assessment helps your organization prepare for digital transformation by giving a complete view of your current Microsoft product deployment and licenses, further helping you in improving internal processes to lower costs, reduce the risks, and improve your end user productivity. We help in creating an inventory of deployed Microsoft assets and review the corresponding customer license entitlements and cloud based solutions. The key insights will show you ways to optimize your software investments and plan accordingly before migrating your workloads and services to the Cloud. Contact us for assistance in terms of Microsoft audit being forced upon. IT CloudMasters Microsoft dedicated SAM Managers can lean in , work with you closely during the entire process from start to finish.

Benefits:

  • Helps in controlling the business and legal risks related to improper software deployment
  • Optimizes the business’s hardware and software investments based on detailed inventory
  • Helps in aligning the IT with organizational goals
  • Helps in creating the ongoing processes for monitoring and provisioning current and future assets
  • Highlights the migration and consolidation opportunities for your business

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