You’re juggling a dozen cloud projects, each with its own tangled mess of assets, licenses, and shadow IT lurking in the corners. Then — bam! — unexpected downtime, compliance red flags, or a budget report that makes your CFO’s eye twitch.
Sound familiar?
Welcome to the wild ITAM world.
But here’s the good news: after working with Cloudaware clients across complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments, my team has cracked the code on how to do IT asset management right.
In this guide, we’re sharing 11 IT asset management best practices — straight from real-world trenches. From #1 Full Asset Visibility to #4 Automated Policy Enforcement, these aren’t just nice-to-haves. They’re the guardrails keeping your infrastructure lean, secure, and cost-efficient.
Eliminate ghost and zombie assets
You’re not spinning up extra resources, but the numbers say otherwise. That’s because your cloud is haunted — by ghost and zombie assets.
👻 Ghost assets are IT resources that should be gone but still show up in your asset management system. Maybe a decommissioned VM is still listed in your CMDB (Configuration Management Database), or an old service entry is hanging around in your IT asset register, inflating your reports and making audits a nightmare.
🧟♂️ Zombie assets are forgotten but still running, quietly chewing through CPU, storage, and networking costs. These could be unattached EBS volumes in AWS, idle VMs in Azure, or orphaned Cloud SQL instances in GCP — all of which add up fast.
These freeloaders don’t just touch your budget; they weaken security, mess with compliance, and clutter IT asset management workflows. Ignoring them means potential CIS Benchmark violations, like:
🚨 CIS AWS 1.11 – Ensure unused IAM credentials are removed (because ghost assets with lingering access are a security risk). 🚨 CIS GCP 2.9 – Ensure that compute instances are not using default service accounts (zombie assets left with overprivileged accounts are a compliance headache). 🚨 CIS Azure 6.2 – Ensure virtual machines are shut down when no longer needed (because why pay for a VM no one’s using?).
Time to explore how to clear them out before they drain your cloud budget and expose your infrastructure to unnecessary risk.
How to Hunt Down and Eliminate Ghost and Zombie Assets
1. Expose the Hidden with Automated Discovery
You can’t fix what you can’t see. Run automated asset discovery across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem. Cross-check results with billing records, IT asset management (ITAM) data, CMDB entries, and IaC configs. If something exists in one but not the others — boom, ghost detected.
2. Match Bills with ITAM Data
If you’re paying for an asset that’s missing from your ITAM system, it’s a zombie draining your budget.
- Sync CMDB with billing data — every expense should match a tracked asset.
- Look for untagged, ownerless resources — no labels? No recent activity? Time to investigate.
- Set up alerts for anything that doesn't have a clear owner or service connection.
3. Find the Lurkers
Zombie assets don’t make noise, but they leave traces. Tracking activity is key:
- Compute & Storage Usage – No CPU cycles? No access? Cut it.
- IAM & Permissions – Not linked to an active service? Ghost alert.
- Network Traffic – If it’s silent, it’s wasting resources.
Set up automated scans to flag anything untouched for 30+ days.
4. Automate the Cleanup
Once found, don’t let them linger. Tag assets as "Pending Deletion", notify teams, and enforce a 7-14 day review window. If no one claims them, auto-terminate — with a snapshot backup if policies require it.
5. Keep Them from Coming Back
Prevention is key.
- Set expiration dates for test environments so they auto-delete when no longer needed.
- Enforce strict tagging policies to ensure every asset has an owner and purpose.
- Schedule automated cleanups to catch and remove newly orphaned resources before they become a problem.
With smart tracking, automation, and IT asset management best practices, your cloud stays lean, cost-efficient, and secure — no more budget leaks, no more compliance nightmares.
Automate asset discovery process
The kicker?
Nobody knows who deployed it, what it’s connected to, or if it’s even supposed to exist.
“Just check the CMDB,” someone says. But when you do, the VM is nowhere to be found — not listed, not tagged, and definitely not under any team’s responsibility. Security is scrambling, finance is panicking over unexpected costs, and compliance is already drafting an incident report because, guess what? This unknown instance just violated CIS AWS 2.1 – Ensure S3 Buckets are not publicly accessible.
Without automated asset discovery, this isn’t just a one-time mistake — it’s happening constantly across dev, test, and production environments. Resources spin up, go untracked, and become security gaps, compliance risks, and financial black holes.
Now, let’s explore how to fix that using IT asset management best practices.
1. Set Up Continuous Asset Discovery
Deploy an automated asset discovery tool that scans AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem environments in real time. It should:
✅ Detect every compute instance, database, and network resource the moment it’s created. ✅ Pull metadata like owner, creation date, tags, and last activity to avoid orphaned assets. ✅ Sync with CMDB and ITAM tools for a single source of truth.
2. Link Discovery with Cloud Billing
Every asset must match a billing entry to prevent financial black holes. Set up:
✅ Automated reconciliation between asset management discovery and FinOps tools. ✅ Alerts for untracked or unexpectedly high-cost services. ✅ Enforced tagging at creation to ensure assets are classified correctly.
3. Automate Asset Classification & Policy Enforcement
Ghost and zombie assets thrive in unstructured asset management workflows. Stop them with:
✅ Auto-tagging rules based on workload and lifecycle to ensure assets are properly categorized. ✅ CIS-based compliance enforcement (e.g., CIS Azure 6.3 – Ensure resource groups have proper labels). ✅ Routine asset validation checks to keep tracking accurate and prevent unauthorized resources.
With automated discovery and strict IT asset management policies, your cloud stays visible, controlled, and free from rogue assets — before they become someone else’s problem. No more compliance headaches, no more unexpected costs, just a well-structured, efficient cloud service environment.
Maintain a centralized inventory
"Everything looked fine… until it wasn’t."
That’s how the Head of Cloud Operations at a global fintech company opened up on our demo call. They had just spent 72 hours firefighting an issue that never should’ve happened.
A critical payment API went offline during peak transaction hours. The alert hit their NOC first, then DevOps, then Security. Chaos unfolded — where was the problem? Which system failed? No one could answer.
Logs pointed to a missing database instance. But when the team checked AWS, Azure, and on-prem servers, it wasn’t listed anywhere. The CMDB had no record of it, and FinOps couldn’t match it to any billing data. Finally, someone reverse-engineered the application architecture and found it: an orphaned instance, long forgotten, still running in GCP.
It was business-critical — yet it existed in no inventory, had no owner, and wasn’t tagged properly. It lacked required labels, making it impossible to track its cost or touch its security posture.
That’s when they knew: they needed a centralized IT asset management (ITAM) solution — an ITAM best practice they had overlooked.
How Cloudaware Fixes This with Multi-Cloud CMDB
Cloudaware’s CMDB unifies all asset management across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem into one intuitive dashboard. No more asset hide-and-seek — everything is visible in real time.
- CI Enrichment for Full Context. Every Configuration Item (CI) is enriched with metadata, ownership, cost data, compliance status, and security risks. No more blind spots — every asset’s impact is clear. Unlabeled, untracked instances? Field required.
- Intuitive Multi-Cloud Navigator. Instead of bouncing between consoles, Cloudaware maps dependencies between assets, showing which services rely on what. This enables teams to explore relationships, automate tracking, and enforce asset management best practices.
This fintech client? They went from 72-hour firefights to instant root cause detection — because when your IT asset management is centralized, enriched, and automated, nothing slips through the cracks.
Conduct audits to avoid compliance penalties
It’s a peaceful morning. Coffee in hand, you’re skimming through dashboards, everything looks normal. Then — a new manager pings you.
You pull up the audit report and immediately spot the problem — hundreds of virtual machines running outdated OS versions with critical vulnerabilities. No patching, no tracking, no security monitoring. Some of them aren’t even tagged properly, making it impossible to tell which team owns them.
The compliance team isn’t happy. The company’s CIS AWS 3.1 – Ensure EC2 instances are using approved AMIs and CIS Azure 4.4 – Ensure VM images are regularly updated policies have been ignored. Now, you’re looking at security risks, a failed audit report, and a mad rush to patch everything before leadership steps in.
All of this could have been avoided — with regular IT asset management (ITAM) audits and structured reporting.
Must-Have ITAM Reports for Compliance & Security
Audits find the issues — but tracking compliance requires structured asset management reporting. Here’s what every organization needs:
✅ Asset Inventory Report. A full IT asset management record across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem, including owner, location, status, cost center, and last activity date. ✅ Compliance Report. Tracks OS versions, installed applications, licensing status, and end-of-life alerts to ensure compliance with best practices. ✅ Patch Management Report. Identifies unpatched systems, outdated software, and missing security updates, ensuring compliance with CIS benchmarks. ✅ Access & Permissions Audit Report. Lists IAM roles, user permissions, and service accounts, flagging excessive privileges, orphaned accounts, and missing MFA enforcement. ✅ Configuration Drift Report. Compares baseline security settings with current configurations to detect unauthorized changes in compute, storage, and networking resources. ✅ Untracked & Orphaned Asset Report. Detects resources without owner tags, missing cost tracking, or still running after decommission approval. ✅ Cost & Usage Report. Breaks down cloud expenses by asset, service, and department, helping FinOps teams explore cloud usage, control shadow IT, and manage costs. ✅ Historical Compliance Trends Report. Provides a timeline of compliance improvements and recurring violations, ensuring audit readiness and accountability.
With Cloudaware CMDB, these reports are automated, real-time, and audit-ready, making asset management effortless. Set audits on your terms — and if you need custom reports, ITAM managers are ready to help.
Auto-Tag Assets Based on Workload Behavior (Not Just Labels)
🚨 Midway through a product launch, the DevOps team got slammed with alerts. Latency spiked, critical APIs slowed down, and engineers rushed in — only to find a tagging disaster.
Every EC2, RDS, and Lambda was meticulously labeled — department, owner, environment — but none of it reflected what was actually happening.
🔴 An instance tagged “Test” was running production workloads, but no one noticed because tags never updated. 🔴 Escalation alerts went to the wrong team — ownership labels hadn’t changed since deployment. 🔴 Cost reports were misleading — some low-priority resources were burning cash, while essential workloads were throttled.
The team needed an IT asset management (ITAM) best practices approach — a tagging system that worked in real time, not just at deployment.
Action plan
1. Set Up Behavior-Based Tagging Rules
Forget manual updates — Cloudaware’s Tag Analyzer tracks asset behavior and auto-tags resources based on real usage.
✅ High CPU usage? Auto-tag “High-Load” to trigger scaling. ✅ Orphaned volumes? Auto-tag “Decommission” for cleanup. ✅ Unused databases? Auto-tag “Idle” and flag for review.
This automated tracking system ensures every service and asset gets tagged based on workload, not just static labels.
2. Automate It and Let Cloudaware Handle the Rest
Go to Setup → Tag Resources, set rules, and let Cloudaware update tags dynamically.
✅ New resources get the right tags instantly — eliminating guesswork in asset management. ✅ Old assets adjust as workloads change, keeping the IT environment optimized. ✅ No more outdated labels, no more tracking nightmares — just real-time asset visibility.
Now, tagging isn’t just a one-time thing — it evolves with your cloud. Because when workloads shift, your tags should touch reality, too. Better tracking, smarter asset management, seamless operations.
And once more advice on tagging 👇
Define a Clear Tagging asset management Policy
“Where’s this workload running?” Silence.
“Who owns this instance?” Shrugs.
“Why are we paying for this?” No answers.
Without a clear, enforced tagging policy, asset management collapses — cloud spend spirals, security gaps hide in plain sight, and incident response turns into a wild goose chase. The DevOps team had tags — but no structure.
When Finance needed cost breakdowns? Messy reports. When Security needed to track down unpatched assets? Orphaned resources, no owners.
They didn’t need more labels. They needed a system.
Action plan
Tags should be structured, uniform, and required across all cloud environments to ensure accurate asset tracking, security, and cost optimization. Following best practices for IT asset management, every asset should have a consistent tagging format to prevent missing data and mismanaged resources.
Here’s what a strong tagging policy should include:
✅ Environment (Prod, Dev, Test, Sandbox, DR) Clearly defining which environment an asset belongs to prevents accidental modifications, misconfigurations, or unintentional exposure of sensitive data.
Example: Environment=Prod ensures critical resources receive priority monitoring, while Environment=Test prevents unnecessary scaling or high-cost optimizations.
✅ Owner (Team, Individual, or Automated Process)
Every asset should have a clear owner, whether it’s an engineering team, a specific developer, or an automated deployment pipeline.
Example: Owner=SecurityTeam or Owner=DataEngineering helps quickly escalate incidents to the right teams.
✅ Cost Center (Billing Group, Project, Client-Specific Allocation)
Tagging by cost center allows Finance, ITAM, and FinOps teams to track expenses per business unit, project, or client.
Example: CostCenter=MarketingCampaignX ensures cloud spend is tied to specific initiatives, reducing budgeting inefficiencies.
✅ Compliance Level (PCI, HIPAA, ISO, Internal Security Standard)
Resources handling sensitive data must follow strict compliance regulations. Assigning compliance tags ensures security controls are applied automatically and audited properly.
Example: Compliance=HIPAA enforces strict access controls and monitoring to meet regulatory standards.
With these required tags in place, asset management moves from reactive to proactive. Security, Finance, and DevOps teams can all pull the data they need instantly — no more chasing labels, no more missing pieces.
Automate Remediation for Untracked Assets
🚨 A high-risk vulnerability scan just flagged an unpatched database — fully exposed to the internet.
The problem? No one knows who owns it.
Ops checks the CMDB — nothing. FinOps cross-references billing — no tags, no labels, no record of approval. Security digs deeper — default credentials, no MFA, wide-open access. A ticking time bomb.
The breach report lands, and compliance kicks in: CIS AWS 1.14 – Ensure MFA is enabled for all IAM users. A violation, an audit failure, and a costly cleanup.
This isn’t just one rogue database. It’s an entire ecosystem of forgotten assets, each one a risk — leaking money, exposing systems, and silently breaking policies.
Time to shut it down — automatically.
Action plan:
1. Continuous Asset Discovery
Set up automated asset discovery and tracking to monitor every instance, database, and service across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Cloudaware’s Asset Intelligence ensures nothing flies under the radar.
✅ Sync discovery with CMDB and IT asset management (ITAM) tools for real-time visibility. ✅ Flag assets without proper tracking, tags, or ownership. ✅ Explore and detect shadow IT before it becomes a liability.
2. Define Entry Criteria for Remediation
Not every untracked asset is a mistake, but every single one needs a review.
✅ Configure workflows to identify assets missing labels, tags, or security controls. ✅ Apply CIS benchmarks to flag compliance violations (e.g., CIS Azure 6.5 – Ensure that security groups are managed). ✅ Set up auto-remediation rules based on asset type, owner, and risk level.
3. Automate Response Actions
With Cloudaware Workflows, remediation isn’t just alerts — it’s action.
✅ Auto-assign missing tags based on workload, team, or environment. ✅ Send immediate notifications to responsible owners (Slack, email, ITSM). ✅ Trigger decommissioning workflows for unauthorized assets. ✅ Enforce access controls — lock down public resources, disable default credentials.
4. Regular Audits & Compliance Reports
No more surprises. Cloudaware ensures software asset management best practices are followed by keeping untracked assets monitored, reported, and remediated.
✅ Schedule compliance scans to detect any new rogue resources. ✅ Auto-generate reports detailing remediation actions taken. ✅ Track cost impact of unapproved assets and enforce FinOps accountability.
With Cloudaware’s low-code workflow automation, every untracked asset either gets fixed, assigned, or wiped out — before it becomes a liability. No more hidden risks. No more last-minute firefights. Just a clean, controlled, and compliant cloud service.
Avoid unnecessary IT expenses
Burning money without even realizing it? That’s exactly what happened to a DevOps team I worked with.
They thought their asset management strategy was solid — until Finance flagged a 300% budget overage in their latest report.
The culprit?
🚨 Zombie instances left running after testing, hidden from standard tracking. 🚨 Orphaned storage volumes accumulating data no one needed, lacking tags or proper ownership. 🚨 Over-provisioned VMs with maxed-out resources but minimal usage, violating IT asset management (ITAM) best practices. 🚨 Duplicate services running in both AWS and Azure, because no one explored the existing infrastructure before provisioning.
By the time they caught it, thousands had already been wasted.
Action plan
1. Get a Clear View of All Costs
Cloudaware’s FinOps report provides real-time tracking across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
✅ Break down spending by project, department, or team. ✅ Explore cost trends to spot unusual spikes before Finance does. ✅ Auto-tag assets and enforce required labels, so every dollar spent is accounted for.
2. Optimize Resource Utilization
Not every instance needs to run 24/7. Cloudaware ensures efficient asset management by:
✅ Identifying underutilized instances and suggesting cost-efficient alternatives. ✅ Detecting orphaned storage and zombie workloads for automatic decommissioning. ✅ Applying auto-scaling policies to match real demand, preventing unnecessary spend.
3. Automate Budget Controls & Forecasting
No more surprise invoices — Cloudaware keeps you ahead of cost overruns.
✅ Set spending alerts before costs spiral. ✅ Track historical expenses to touch past trends and predict future budgets. ✅ Generate automated chargeback reports to ensure each team understands their real costs. ✅ Field required for budget allocation — ensuring teams take ownership of their spending.
With Cloudaware’s FinOps module, cost optimization is built into every asset, every label, every decision — so you stop wasting money and start running a leaner, smarter cloud.
Link IT Asset Data to Incident Management Systems
When an outage hits, every second counts. But what happens when your incident response team is flying blind?
That’s exactly what went down for a DevOps team I worked with. A critical application crashed in production, and alerts exploded across Slack and PagerDuty. Engineers jumped in, but no one knew which assets were affected, which dependencies were breaking, or where to even start looking.
🔴 No CMDB link? No context. They had an incident, but no clue which servers, databases, or APIs were involved. 🔴 Wild goose chase for root cause. Without clear IT assets tracking, the team burned hours digging through logs and running manual queries. 🔴 Escalation chaos. The wrong people were paged, response times dragged, and users started noticing.
By the time they pieced things together, it was too late — revenue had already taken a hit.
Action plan
1. Build a Single Source of Truth
Cloudaware syncs asset data from AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle, VMware, Kubernetes, and on-prem into a centralized CMDB, following IT asset inventory management best practices. Every asset is tagged, tracked, and mapped to its dependencies.
✅ Know exactly which services rely on what — before something breaks. ✅ Enrich every incident with asset context — so responders get instant visibility. ✅ Apply mandatory labels and tags to maintain an organized asset management system.
2. Sync CMDB with PagerDuty for Real-Time tracking and Incident Response
Cloudaware links IT assets directly to PagerDuty, so when an alert fires, it comes with full asset management data.
✅ Incidents auto-tag impacted assets, eliminating manual tracking delays. ✅ Escalation policies trigger based on affected infrastructure, ensuring the right service teams respond first. ✅ Past incidents are linked to assets, helping teams explore patterns, fix recurring failures, and refine response workflows.
3. Turn Incident Response from Reactive to Proactive
Instead of scrambling, teams can predict and prevent issues by analyzing historical incidents tied to specific assets.
✅ Spot weak points before they break by leveraging past service failures and trends. ✅ Refine escalation workflows with real-world IT asset management (ITAM) best practices. ✅ Reduce resolution times by eliminating guesswork — know exactly where to touch first.
With Cloudaware’s CMDB and PagerDuty integration, incident response stops being reactive firefighting and becomes a structured, data-driven process.
Protect your assets from theft
“We didn’t even know it was gone.”
That’s what the CISO of a fast-growing SaaS company said when they discovered a compromised IAM role had been silently exfiltrating sensitive data for weeks.
It started with an unsecured S3 bucket — one that no one knew existed. A developer had spun it up for testing, but because it was missing proper tags and CMDB tracking, it never got secured. No MFA, no access restrictions, no logging.
An attacker found it, created a rogue IAM role, and slowly siphoned out customer data. When Security finally caught it, the damage was done. Compliance teams flagged violations of CIS AWS 1.14 – Ensure MFA is enabled for all IAM users, and leadership had to disclose a security breach.
The worst part? The data theft could have been prevented — if they had full asset visibility and proactive security enforcement.
Action plan
1. Lock Down Permissions & Enforce Security Policies
Cloudaware ensures every asset has the right controls in place — automatically.
✅ Auto-detects policy violations (e.g., public S3 buckets, overprivileged IAM roles). ✅ Enforces CIS benchmarks — ensuring compliance with security best practices. ✅ Auto-remediates unauthorized access — revoking or restricting permissions instantly. ✅ Applies security labels and mandatory access controls to every service.
2. Set Up Theft Detection & Alerts
If something moves, you’ll know. Cloudaware integrates with SIEM tools to provide real-time alerts on suspicious activity.
✅ Tracks unauthorized asset access with detailed CI logging. ✅ Triggers alerts on suspicious role changes, privilege escalations, or unusual data transfers. ✅ Provides centralized security tracking for all assets and cloud services.
Leverage Application-Level Monitoring
The DevOps team had done everything right. Every EC2, RDS, and Lambda was perfectly tagged — department, owner, environment — but when Finance asked for a breakdown of infrastructure costs per department, tags weren’t enough.
They needed a structured way to track which assets belonged to which teams, not just scattered labels. So they built Virtual Applications in Cloudaware, grouping assets by department:
📌 Finance Application → EC2 (Billing Engine), RDS (Transaction DB), API Gateway (Payment Processing) 📌 Support Application → Kubernetes Cluster (Chatbot), DynamoDB (Ticket Data), SNS (Alerting)
Now, Finance didn’t just see infrastructure costs — they saw which departments were driving them. Meanwhile, DevOps could troubleshoot by application, not by chasing individual assets. More control, faster decisions, IT asset management best practices in action.
Beyond cost visibility, Cloudaware clients use Virtual Applications for:
🔹 Grouping assets by department (e.g., HR, Sales, R&D) to track cloud spending per team and explore optimization opportunities.
🔹 Mapping Kubernetes clusters, Lambda functions, API Gateways, and databases into logical stacks for better tracking and service monitoring.
🔹 Organizing sensitive assets (e.g., PCI, HIPAA workloads) into compliance-focused applications to enforce security policies and meet best practices.
🔹 Defining Disaster Recovery applications with resources spanning multiple regions, ensuring failover continuity.
🔹 Assigning customer-specific applications, grouping instances, storage, and services for better service isolation.
Action plan
Instead of managing scattered assets, map your cloud infrastructure like it actually works.
✅ Create a Virtual Application – Go to Navigator → Applications → New Cloudaware Application, name it, and set tiers (e.g., Web, API, Database).
✅ Attach Resources – Select running instances, databases, and services, then assign them to the right tier using IT asset management best practices.
✅ Automate It – Set up auto-attachment rules via Setup → Process Automation → Flows, so new assets instantly join the correct application, keeping tracking effortless.
With Cloudaware Virtual Applications, you stop manually touching scattered assets and start managing your cloud as a structured, well-organized system — optimized for cost, security, and performance.
Implement it asset management best practices easily with Cloudaware
Managing IT assets across multiple clouds and on-prem shouldn’t feel like a never-ending game of hide and seek — but without the right system, that’s exactly what happens. Shadow IT, cost overruns, compliance gaps — pure chaos.
That’s why global enterprises like Coca Cola, Charles Schwab, and even NASA rely on Cloudaware CMDB to implement best practices for it asset management.
🚀 Real-time IT asset tracking. See every cloud and on-prem asset in one unified, searchable dashboard. 🔍 Automated asset discovery. No more orphaned instances, missing owners, or surprise bill shocks. 📊 Cost visibility & FinOps integration. Track cloud spend at the project, team, and service level to eliminate waste before it happens. 🔗 Incident & compliance alignment. Link IT assets to security policies, compliance frameworks, and incident workflows to close gaps fast. ⚡ Auto-tagging & policy enforcement. Set rules once, and Cloudaware automatically tags and categorizes assets based on real workload behavior. 🔎 Context-rich asset intelligence. Enrich discovered Configuration Items (CIs) with compliance status, related dependencies, vulnerabilities, and cost insights — because knowing what you have isn’t enough, you need to know what’s at risk. The result? Full control, airtight security, and IT asset management (ITAM) best practices on autopilot.
Let’s make your cloud work for you — not the other way around. Book a call with a Cloudaware ITAM expert today and see it in action.
FAQ on it asset management best practices
Which one is the best practices of it asset management ITAM?
The best ITAM practice? Automation. If you're still manually tracking assets, you’re already behind. Automate discovery, enforce tagging policies, and integrate ITAM with security and compliance. Cloudaware does this effortlessly — so every asset is tracked, every risk is flagged, and every dollar spent makes sense.
What is an example of it asset management?
Think multi-cloud chaos turned into control. A global enterprise like Coca-Cola struggling with chaotic cloud resources, security gaps, and unpredictable cloud costs uses Cloudaware CMDB to track every asset, enrich it with compliance data, and link it to incidents. The result? No more blind spots, wasted spend, or surprise audits.
What are software asset management best practices?
Software asset management best practices start with real-time visibility — you can’t manage what you can’t see. Automate software discovery, enforce license tracking, and map every application to business impact. Cloudaware helps IT teams optimize software costs, avoid compliance nightmares, and eliminate unused licenses before they drain budgets.
What is an IT asset management example?
A DevOps team drowning in unlabeled cloud assets and runaway costs implements Cloudaware CMDB for auto-tagging, compliance tracking, and cost visibility. Now, every EC2, RDS, and Kubernetes node is accounted for, secured, and optimized. That’s ITAM done right — real-time tracking, zero wasted spend, and total control.
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