Organizations can struggle when they face translating what often can be ambiguously worded legal regulations into actionable controls on their IT assets. Without understanding the status, location, and use of their IT assets, they will not easily be able to demonstrate compliance.
Peregrine’s asset-tracking suite comprises an asset-discovery product bundle known as Peregrine Enterprise Discovery that will discover hardware, software, and network devices, on the fly.
Once an asset is discovered by the system, inventory scanners are used pull across the requisite depth of data to make it meaningful to IT operational processes and also to compliance teams.
It also will provide the validation that is required for managing a configuration-management database. In the context of software asset management, the system is said to be capable of identifying 15,000 software titles and some 1,500 attributes covering servers and workstations, as well as supplying data on the utilization of those assets. Those metrics on asset-utilization help businesses optimize software licenses.
Meanwhile, Peregrine also announced a four-year extension of its sales relationship with IBM.
