New Feature: Pingsta Collaborative Asset Manager (Pingsta CAM™)
A recent report from the Gartner Group states that effective asset management is one of the best means for businesses to achieve immediate IT cost savings: it can yield savings of up to 30% per asset within the first year. However, only about 25% of companies have a decent asset management plan. Unfortunately, many organizations continue to use outdated and extensive excel sheets to record and manage assets, email attachments to share asset data.
To solve this problem, Pingsta just launched a new Pingsta ICE™ service feature called Pingsta Collaborative Asset Manager™ (Pingsta CAM™). Pingsta CAM™ provides businesses of all sizes as well as Government agencies with organization-wide asset management capabilities.
Pingsta CAM™ Benefits Include:
- Enhanced asset management by enabling the collaborative upload, update, and management of all IT assets across multiple locations worldwide in real time.
- Organization-wide visibility to all IT assets such as routers, switches, firewalls, data center servers and storage networking via an intelligent world map mashup.
- Reduced costs and pay-per-asset while dramatically improving efficiencies because Pingsta CAM™ requires no software to download, setup nor maintain.
- Enhanced global cross-functional collaboration organization-wide.
- End-to-end real-time visibility and global accessibility to accurate corporate asset data.
- Improved service delivery, employee productivity and the balance sheet.
How does it work?
Pretty simple.
Sign up for free to a Pingsta ICE™ edition (e.g. Service Provider, Enterprise, or Pro), from your Pingsta ICE™ dashboard, click on the “Assets” tab, and begin adding your IT assets.
As the default account administrator, you can also add other corporate users within your organization that are involved in asset acquisition, implementation and management such as procurement, engineering, finance etc. to the same asset map so that it can be collaboratively updated.
To learn more, watch the Pingsta CAM™ video or contact Pingsta and an account manager will be glad to help you further.
To get started, make sure to sign up today for a free 90-day trial and begin leveraging Pingsta CAM™ to unify and simplify your entire asset inventory through Pingsta’s collaborative web 2.0 platform.
Weekly Weigh-in #5: Google vs. Verizon, AT&T, etc…
The FCC is getting prepared to auction off the 700MHz spectrum, and as all the likely bidders (AT&T, Verizon, etc…) are reaching into their deep pockets, happy with the lack of governmental restrictions, Google is asking that certain conditions be set ahead of time in exchange for a substantially high minimum bid.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently sent a letter to FCC chairman Kevin Martin explaining that if the FCC wants their $4.6 billion minimum bid to be considered for a part of the UHF TV spectrum they “should extend all CRMS-type spectrum licensees clearly delineated, explicitly enforceable, and unwavering obligations to provide (1) open applications, (2) open devices, (3) open wholesale services, and (4) open network access.”
Google’s most vocal opponent has been Verizon (who has recently said they are willing to consider some, but not all of the obligations) throughout this whole debate.
This begs the question: What’s in it for Google? If the FCC accepts their obligations, is this the first step towards a free-for-all Google VoIP phone?
Update: As it stands now, it appears that the FCC will take its chances and not accept all of Google’s conditions.
