Just as significantly, this infrastructure is changing at a previously inconceivable speed. Servers are quickly added as demand rises. New software revisions are installed on a weekly basis to cover security holes or deliver new features.
Older machines have to be rotated into less-demanding roles as new ones become available.
With all of this change and resource-juggling, IT departments can quickly lose track of what they own and what it's being used for. Fortunately, there's a way to get a handle on your e-infrastructure and make sure you're using every component of that infrastructure as effectively as possible. Back in 1994, MainControl CEO and co-founder Alex Pinchev already saw that effective management of technology assets was becoming increasingly critical to business success. So they either bought machines they didn't really need, or bought too many different types of machines from too many different suppliers, or weren't able to anticipate when they were going to need to do their upgrades. It was an unacceptable situation from a CFO's perspective.