IT assets very often represent the most important operational assets of a company. Assets such as servers, blade servers and laptops contain sensitive company information which needs to be secured. Additionally, such assets are expensive and their total quantity is large. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the USA requires that accurate inventory data is captured regularly. These facts drive companies to track their IT assets in order to verify where their sensitive company data is located, how efficiently and by whom the assets are used.
IT asset tracking with passive RFID technology brings many benefits when compared to the traditional barcode identification. Reduction of human intervention and faster data center audits results in improved accuracy and both time and cost savings. Detailed information on the IT asset and automated tracking of the asset location allows companies to prevent theft and prioritize the asset usage.
Typical requirements for IT asset RFID tags include compact size, efficient performance and compliance with the existing systems; Financial Services Technology Consortium’s (FSTC) RFID tagging requirements are good example of guidelines where the tag should also include 2D barcode and other visual data to in order to comply with specific industry’s needs. Confidex IT asset tag portfolio consists of tags both for retrofit and source tagging purposes. Confidex can also provide tags with full FSTC compliance, as the first company in the market.