Dear JDisc friends, today I’d like to talk about how to select a network discovery tool and how JDisc approaches prospects and I guess that is what makes the difference! Selecting a network discovery tool is a time consuming and not trivial task. Once you start contacting vendor, they start to start the selling machine…
Dear JDisc Friends, virtualization is a commodity today and VMware is definitely one of the big players in this arena. JDisc has been able to scan VMware ESX(i) servers since its beginnings and we are able to get detailed hardware and software information as well as the list of virtual machines running on the physical…
Dear JDisc friends, apart from the major changes and shiny new features, we are constantly adding new smaller enhancements and features to our product. Of couse, all of them appear within the release notes. But honestly, who’s reading release notes? I don’t :-). Most of the time, they are pretty boring to read and unfortunately,…
Dear JDisc friends, today, I am going to talk a little bit on how we improve our database discovery. So far, JDisc Discovery scans so called application instances. Application instances can be instances of databases, web servers or application servers. One our our recent prospects requested to scan the port for each database instance. Furthermore…
Dear JDisc Friends, some time passed by since I wrote my last blog entry. This time, I would like to present a new feature that cares about devices that have been removed from the network. Devices are aging as we do and they get removed from the network after their lifetime. JDisc Discovery currently does…
Hello JDisc friends, back from the CeBIT 2015, I would like to share my experiences. This was the first time that we presenting our products at the CeBIT and it was a great success for us. Together with our partners Synetics (CMDB i-doit), G-Media (providing services for our solutions) it-novum (ITSM solutions) and procilon (security…
Dear JDisc friends, this is the first time where we present our products at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover starting at the 16th of March. All our preparations are running at full speed and we are really looking forward to meet you at the i-doit partner booth in hall 6, block H16, booth 010.…
Some more insights about Autodesk Software Licensing…
Hello JDisc friends, similar to the last topic about software license management, I would like to introduce a new feature that has been developed under the Christmas tree :-). Starting with release 3.2 build 3207, we do collect software license information for Autodesk software. Martin Thompson from the ITAM review has published a nice article…
Dear JDisc friends, I guess most of you are agree that software license management is a pretty hot topic nowadays. Organizations are threated by software audits. On the other side, there is a huge opportunity to reduce license and support cost for software that isn’t in use anymore. Some of our competitors in the area…
