{"id":4450,"date":"2012-11-01T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2427373"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:31:00","slug":"the-lost-stepping-stone-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-lost-stepping-stone-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Stepping Stone to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT Asset Management, or ITAM if you prefer, is the lost link to the cloud. There, now we\u2019ve said it, do you feel better?<br \/>\nBefore we can decide whether this is true, we need to understand what ITAM really is of course.<br \/>\nSometimes called EAM (Enterprise Asset Management), the practice of asset management is quite a broad term used to describe the process of auditing and subsequently overseeing the total number of IT assets inside a company.<br \/>\nEncompassing hardware, but predominantly focused (these days) on software, asset management allows IT managers to improve cost control, perform maintenance scheduling, manage upgrades and look downstream towards decommissioning and replacement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2427373\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT Asset Management, or ITAM if you prefer, is the lost link to the cloud. There, now we\u2019ve said it, do you feel better?<br \/>\nBefore we can decide whether this is true, we need to understand what ITAM really is of course.<br \/>\nSometimes called EAM (Enterprise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}