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Open Source software vendors are starting to fight back at what they perceive to be the misuse of their products by global cloud providers. Sick of other companies using freely available software to make money, certain vendors have introduced to license types to put a stop to it. Redis Redis...
Microsoft have announced Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure based offering that aims to make desktop virtualisation easier for organisations to deploy and manage. What does it do? Its big things is that it will enable multi-user virtual desktop sessions – that is, where multiple...
I’m pleased to announce that our first Audit Defence training course is now live and available to LISA subscribers. This course has been created in partnership with Kylie Fowler of ITAM Intelligence, a long term ITAM Review partner, collaborator, and conference speaker. This means...
Flexera yesterday (September 26, 2018) announced the purchase of RightScale, a leader in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management market. Market background Spending on public cloud – services such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure – is estimated to reach $56 billion...
We’re building the agenda for the ITAM Review Conference USA 2019 and, while we’ve already got some fantastic speakers lined up, we need more. Do you want to share your knowledge and experience with the ITAM Review community? Raise your profile? Conquer that fear of public speaking...
In a blog post on September 6, 2018, Microsoft announced several revisions to current support policies for Windows and Office 365 –which should all be positive for customers. Microsoft product support has long been the subject of conversation, and it seems to be a hotter topic than...
Here is the second of the ITAM Review Market Guides – this time looking at tools and services to help manage IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) in the public cloud. IaaS environments, such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, are becoming an ever-bigger infrastructure component for...
Reuters report that the Israeli government is preparing not to renew their Microsoft licensing agreement for “Office, Windows, and server software”. According to the Israeli Finance Ministry, “Microsoft is trying to shift Israel…to a subscription system that...
“Office 2019 pricing will increase by 10%” Microsoft announced (June 25, 2018) licensing & pricing changes that will be introduced in the October 2018 price list. These will mean some actual price increases for a range of customers, primarily those in the mid-market...
Microsoft have released the first public previews of their next generation of on-premises Office server products – that is: Exchange Server 2019 SharePoint Server 2019 Skype for Business Server 2019 Exchange Server 2019 The next release of Exchange Server will run on Windows Server...