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This is the seventh “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom Australia 2019 – a chance for you to see some of the wonderful speakers and sessions we’ve got in store for you this November in Melbourne. Wes Lewis, Founder, Look LicensingJoining me this time is Wes Lewis, founder...
November 2019 saw the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and one of the new things it brings is enhanced fail-over and Disaster Recovery rights specific to SQL server. What are the changes? With the introduction of the 2019 release, having SQL Server with Software Assurance now...
This is the third “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom Australia 2019 – a chance for you to see some of the wonderful speakers and sessions we’ve got in store for you this November in Melbourne. If you’ve not yet registered, go and do it now – https://marketplace.itassetmanagement.net/event/itam-review-annual-conference-2019-australia/...
“As-A-Service” is everywhere in technology. Looking through my own subscriptions I have service contracts for ink (HP Instant Ink), entertainment (Apple Music & Netflix) and even fitness apps (Strava and Zwift). Even the mighty Apple is trying to pivot towards being primarily...
Our SAP License Management Standard for SAP has been updated to reflect changes in SAP licensing since 2017. The criteria published below are an open standard i.e. If I want to invest in tooling to manage the risk and cost of...
Industry news, job of the week, jargon buster, plus getting started with software audit defence The ITAM Review Monthly Radio Show starring: Martin Thompson Geoff Worsley Stuart Pomfrett AJ Witt Barry Pilling David Foxen Rory Canavan September 2019 topics include: French court...
IBM have announced a new, nicer, approach to license compliance – via the IBM Authorized SAM Provider Offering (IASP). What is IASP? Well, if you search online, the internet will tell you it is an “independent auxillary storage pool” – made by IBM. It seems we’ve got...
In a recent announcement, Microsoft have revealed changes to several Software Assurance benefits, with the first changes happening in February 2020 (just 5 months from now). While there doesn’t appear to be one place with all the information, I’ve done my best to bring it together...
Oracle are facing a class action lawsuit focusing on their cloud sales and whether they used improper tactics to falsify the success of their cloud products. The claim is led by Frankfurt based Union Asset Management Holding AG, an asset manager with almost $400 billion in assets...
At Inspire, their annual partner conference, Microsoft announced upcoming licensing changes for 3 products: Dynamics 365 PowerApps Flow The changes discussed below will take effect October 1, 2019 and this article is based on information released at Microsoft Inspire and via subsequent...