network inventory spreadsheet

It's a significant shift because today periodic inventories and fixed asset audits are a necessary evil in every IT department. They cause a huge drain on technical resources and introduce inaccurate data into operational management processes. Among highly-skilled datacenter technicians, inventory is commonly thought of as the worst job in IT. In the largest datacenters, it is a process that is nothing short of agonizing.

Traditional inventory tracking is no longer up to the task.

"With the mobility of today's IT assets and frequency of those moves, software discovery tools and manual data collection methods simply cannot provide 100 percent accurate network inventory spreadsheet," says Walter Darrough of the International Association of IT Asset Managers, Inc. (IAITAM).