Cloud asset management with Virima for SMBs

Cloud gives you all the flexibility you need and it lets you scale your infrastructure to meet changing demands. But what if you want to track your cloud assets as easily as if they were on-premise? Enter, Virima, an end-to-end IT cloud asset management solution.

It is a full provider for multi-cloud. The company’s purpose-built SaaS platform delivers an all-in-one solution for IT cloud asset management — giving smaller businesses access to enterprise-grade capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

With Virima, you can automate the process of managing those pesky virtual machines by integrating with your cloud provider management consoles. Virima helps you track your assets no matter where they are. With Virima’s cloud-based CMDB, you can manage your virtual machines, AWS EC2 instances, Azure Virtual Machines, and many more assets just as easily as if they were on-premise.

Cloud asset management doesn’t have to be hard—Virima makes it easy!

Virima Technologies is an end-to-end IT asset management (ITAM) solutions provider for multi-cloud. 

Virima’s platform enables administrators to view real-time information about their entire network infrastructure from a single dashboard.

As more workloads move to cloud environments, organizations face managing a growing number of technology assets and dependencies, creating a more complex infrastructure that often requires significant time and resources to manage.

This complexity is partly due to the fact that many applications rely heavily on third-party components or tools that may not fully integrate with the primary application or may assume certain conditions (e.g., storage capacity) in order to function properly within an organization’s infrastructure.

As your organization’s IT operations become increasingly complex, you need a cloud asset management solution that can provide visibility into both internal and external components. This is such that you can easily find out where things are defective, why they are defective and how best to fix them.

Virima is the only ITAM solution to offer the full spectrum of ITAM capabilities in the cloud. It provides automated end-to-end lifecycle management for physical, virtual, and cloud assets across servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and network infrastructures. 

Virima also offers best practices tools such as asset discovery services through Virima Discovery so you can manage your assets from end to end. Besides, we have built our own reporting engine such that there’s no need for third-party add-ons or integrations.

ITAM and multi-cloud asset management

ITAM is a key component of a multi-cloud strategy because it helps to manage and control the cloud environment, ensuring that companies have full visibility into their cloud usage costs. With Virima’s platform, you can easily track your IT assets no matter where they are located in AWS or Azure, whether they are on-premise servers or virtual machines (VMs). This eliminates the need for manual monitoring and data collection methods that are prone to human error and require high maintenance costs.

As ITAM is such an important part of any enterprise-level use case, we wanted to ensure we were delivering solutions that meet those needs head-on. That’s why our team spent over three years building our own proprietary software for tracking physical assets as well as VMs across multiple clouds—giving us all of this functionality out of the box at no additional cost.

Why you need an ITAM solution with cloud asset management capabilities

Whether you are a small or medium business (SMB) or a large enterprise, IT asset management is a critical component of any IT operations strategy. The need for an ITAM solution grows in importance as your organization’s size and complexity grow.

The inclusion of cloud asset management capabilities in an ITAM solution is beneficial for several reasons:

• Helps you maintain control over your IT assets
• Reduces costs by optimizing your IT spend in cloud asset usage
• Mitigates risk and avoids security breaches
• Complies with regulations

How ITAM software reduces IT costs

Automates processes

ITAM software can automate and streamline a wide range of business processes, from asset management to change management. This allows you to save time on manual tasks, which frees up resources for more productive work. Further savings can be realized through the automation of standard reporting and approval processes that reduce costs by improving efficiency.

Reduces time spent on maintenance

ITAM solutions make it easier for you to keep track of your IT assets by automating many maintenance tasks such as software license tracking and compliance audits. In addition, ITAM solutions monitor an asset’s performance continuously. If there are any issues with performance or security that require attention from your team, then these are automatically flagged. This means less time spent manually chasing down problems.

Reduces time spent on compliance

Software licenses need to be tracked carefully so they can be renewed before they expire. Therefore, any reduction in this process leads directly into cost savings when compared against manual labour. Additionally, if a system fails due to lack of licensing, then this could lead directly into downtime. This also impacts revenue negatively. Therefore, avoiding such situations helps save money too!

How Virima’s ITAM Platform Excels in Cloud Asset Management

Virima sets itself apart from other ITAM solutions primarily because it is purpose-built with cloud asset management in mind. As a SaaS solution, it effortlessly integrates with multiple cloud services, not being dependent on any single provider. This cloud-agnostic approach positions Virima as a versatile multi-cloud ITAM platform, which is beneficial for clients who use diverse cloud environments like AWS and Microsoft Azure without losing access to data across these platforms.

This capability in cloud asset management ensures that Virima updates and validates asset data in real-time from multiple sources. Furthermore, Virima’s seamless integration with existing operational management systems enhances its efficacy in cloud asset management, enabling comprehensive asset oversight across the entire organizational spectrum.

Being a cloud-based ITAM tool, Virima eliminates the need for physical hardware or additional software installations on your servers or desktops. This makes it an ideal solution for businesses looking to leverage cloud asset management for efficient and scalable IT asset management, aligning with modern IT demands and infrastructure flexibility.

Why Small Businesses Need Cloud Asset Management with ITAM

It’s a common misconception that IT asset management (ITAM) is only necessary for large corporations. In truth, small businesses can greatly benefit from ITAM, especially when it involves cloud asset management. The cloud, while offering a flexible platform for running your business, presents a complex digital landscape to navigate.

Managing servers and applications in the cloud comes with its unique challenges. Small businesses must ensure that cloud services are effectively integrated with on-premise resources, requiring a transparent view of service deployment locations and their interdependencies. Effective management of these dependencies is crucial to maintain smooth operations.

Virima introduces a solution to these challenges with a specialized app known as Discovery. Designed for operation within cloud environments, Discovery facilitates application discovery and dependency mapping. This empowers small businesses to efficiently manage their cloud-based applications and link them seamlessly with on-premise resources, aligning them with the broader business services they support.

Further enhancing cloud asset management, Virima’s workflows for request, change, and release ensure that cloud environments are correctly structured from the outset. This approach minimizes cloud sprawl and guarantees that applications are developed in environments that meet developer, IT, and IT security standards.

Virima provides an accessible, cloud-centric solution tailored for small businesses looking to optimize their cloud asset management. It’s not only affordable and straightforward to deploy but also comes with a built-in analytics tool. This feature aids IT leaders in assessing the performance of IT assets, preempting potential pitfalls, and making informed decisions on strategic resource allocation.

So, if you are looking for cloud asset management, give Virima a try by requesting a demo!