I own and manage JDisc and its network inventory and discovery products. Before I started JDisc, I worked quite a long time for Hewlett-Packard developing software for network assessments and inventory projects.
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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…
Dear JDisc friends, you thought, that a network documentation software that scans Windows, Linux, VMware, XenServer, MAC OS X, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, and AIX computers is not available for free? Up to now, this has more or less been true! But with the latest JDisc Discovery build, we add a new product edition to our…
Dear JDisc friends, we just have finished our 3.2 release with its new licensing schema and we did a major redesign of our WEB page. Hope you like it! Not it is the time to have a quick look on what we have on our plate for the next couple of months. Adding new devices…
Dear JDisc friends, our company exists now for more than 5 years and some things didn’t change as much as we would have liked them to change. Our WEB page is one of the things that we always wanted to modernize, but that always had a lower priority than new features, releases and projects. 1.…
Dear JDisc Friends, I would like to share a pretty nice story that illustrates the value of having an up-to-date network documentation. Recently one of our clients contacted us and he said: “Look, we have some device on the network that uses the same IP address as our Microsoft Exchange server!”. Of course, that causes…