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This article is a guide to Red Hat JBOSS Middleware. See also our guide to Red Hat Enterprise Linux here. Subscriptions A Red Hat subscription is required for “each and every instance or installation”, in whole or in part, of a JBOSS product being used in your environment. These...
What is a Red Hat Subscription? A Red Hat Subscription provides the following: Access to the Software as well as access to updates, upgrades, corrections, security advisories and bug fixes for the Software (if and when available). It also allows customers to download all supported...
Playing software vendors at their own game I was speaking to Jochen Hagenlocher on The ITAM Review podcast recently (My recording with Jochen will go live in the New Year). Jochen shared a smart idea for thwarting audits before they start – The reverse click through EULA. What is...
Bytes MD Neil Murphy claimed the deal would “Boost revenues to more than £400m”. Bytes UK have acquired Phoenix Software and License Dashboard. Bytes have bought “the Blenheim group”; a holding company for the SAM technology and services provider License Dashboard and the...
Christop Harvey, CEO, DeskCenter Solutions AG I spoke with Christoph Harvey, CEO of Deskcenter AG at Microsoft’s Inspire Conference in the summer. In this article Christoph shares his views on Microsoft’s SAM announcements (see video below) and provides an introduction...
Trying to find how many “Classic Rock” tracks you have amongst your musiccollection isn’t an easy task…but finding the same info in your Spotify account takes just a few clicks. This is primarily due to the MusicID service, provided by Gracenote, which identifies music...
I’ll share more insights and data from the survey over the coming months – including sharing full details and hosting an interactive discussion on salary trends at our USA and Australian conferences. A salary survey conducted back in March this year reveals that salaries for ITAM...
SAP customers want clarity not a conversation – 76% in straw poll have concerns or fear the consequences of raising indirect access concerns with SAP Since the multi-million dollars exposures at Diageo and AB InBev hit the headlines in 2017, SAP Indirect Access risk has, to...
Darryl Sackett, SoftwareOne Competition in the SAM Managed Services market went up a few degrees this week when the software and services provider SoftwareONE made an aggressive play at market share in the mid-market with the launch of their “SAMSimple” offering. In a nutshell:...
“Compliance and cost savings are table stakes; modern SAM partners should help customers drive innovation.” Civica – Microsoft SAM Partner of the Year 2017 This was the claim made by Stewart McLuskey, Director of Sales and Operations at Civica. Civica scoop SAM Partner of...