Sensible It Articles

Last time we talked about our audit, we were talking about mechanisms to collect data from your infrastructure. We discussed how to leverage a couple of different collection mechanisms for your data. What we haven’t discussed, is what to do with the data after you collect it.

One of the pillars of fiscal responsibility — individually or as an organization — is knowing what you have. After all, how can you justify getting more if you don’t know what you’ve already got or more importantly perhaps, haven’t got. Right?

There are a lot of different software products out there. Software that will do anything your organization wants it to do. You can pay just about whatever you want for that software, too.

“Open Source” software, if you will, is a big part of the market. Some of the most widely used software on the internet is wholly free. Not only is it “free”, as in speech; it’s also “free”, as in beer.