Cloud licensing and software asset mangement  Analysts have
predicted that in the next two years, over half of a company's
IT applications will be located in the cloud. This has
significant implications for asset management professionals,
because it means the level of complexity and array of software
assets needing to be monitored and controlled will increase
sharply. Many of the anticipated changes have occurred already
and traditional WINTEL environments of the past have been
replaced by heterogeneous platforms combining Linux, Mac,
Windows, virtualization and now, software as a service (SaaS)
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