Karan,

Very good article.

HAM program under BCSP maintains compute asset inventory from ordering to decommission, and provides visibility to assets by its various dimensions (age, EoL/EoX, utilization). HAM has recently automated quarterly reporting of aging blades (36 months), to help Fleet Managers identify and migrate dependent IT services (app/DB) from aging hardware, and refresh assets periodically instead of as fiscal program. HAM can provide analytics to help compute teams maintain inventory at optimum levels, reduce the risk of running IT Services on aging hardware, improves utilization and thus save money for Cisco IT.

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