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This article was written by Rich Gibbons of ITAM Review and Noel Unwin of Discount Licensing. In July 2012, the second-hand software market received a definitive answer from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) when it ruled that reselling intangible software was legal. The rights...
This article has been written by Rich Gibbons of ITAM Review and Michael Vilain of Relicense. The pre-owned software market has been around for longer than you think but is still very much in the growth stage. It exists primarily in the EU (and also Norway & Switzerland*) and...
Our Wisdom UK 2019 conference theme is “Taking ITAM outside IT”. As industries, businesses, and roles continue to morph, modernise, and multiply – the world around ITAM looks significantly different than it once did. Gone are the days of IT’s central control and instead we...
Running VMware workloads on Microsoft Azure was first discussed towards the end of 2017, around the same time “VMware Cloud on AWS” was launched. There then followed a blog post from VMware taking a few shots at Microsoft and stating the initial project was “neither certified...
Amazon AWS is the market leader for IaaS, with an ever increasing number of companies spending a seemingly ever increasing amount on Amazon’s public cloud services – the most recent being reports that Apple spends $30,000,000 a month. Amazon AWS cloud cost management is key to...
Sophos, the British FTSE 250 security company, have launched a dedicated public cloud security product – Cloud Optix. Cloud Security As many benefits as the public cloud can provide, it can also offer an equal – perhaps greater – number of potential security threats. Managing...
A Twitter thread by a Netflix engineer gives a great insight into some of the intricacies of cloud – in this case Amazon AWS – and how even those who know what they’re doing don’t always get it right! Background The engineer tells us that most deployments at Netflix use...
A recent report from Bath & North East Somerset (BANES) council gives some great insight into the world of local authorities, infrastructure, technical debt, and Microsoft licensing. What’s happening? Relating to a decision taken on March 26th, 2019, the council report “IT...
Lyft & Amazon AWS Lyft, probably the best-known Uber rival, recently filed its IPO (Initial Public Offering) documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the S-1 Registration Document gives an insight into a company’s finances and throws up a couple of...
Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now in public preview. When it was first announced in October, I covered what we knew about the service but now we have more info around the pricing, I think it’s worth another look. What is it? In a nutshell, it is “VDIaaS” –...