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Microsoft have announced a range of changes to their European cloud licensing policies, aimed at reducing some of the heat they’ve been receiving from European cloud providers and industry bodies. Some of the licensing changes are pretty impactful but Brad Smith, Microsoft President...
In this podcast, I talk to Simon Leuty – founder of Livingstone Group and veteran of the ITAM industry. Once we got talking, we almost couldn’t stop (very much like some ITAM Pringles!) so we’ve got an action-packed 48 minutes of ITAM goodness for you here. We discuss a range...
Ahead of Wisdom North America 2022 next week, I sat down with Piyush Patel, Advisory Solution Consultant at ServiceNow, to discuss the art of bringing together all aspects of Technology Asset Management ahead of his upcoming keynote on the topic. An engineer by background, Piyush...
Flexera have released the latest edition of their annual “State of the Cloud” report and, as always, it gives some great insights into the growth, changes, and advances within the world of cloud – an area of growing importance for pretty much every IT asset manager around the...
According to a global survey of 1,000+ IT professionals, computer hardware is still the top IT spending category, accounting for 30% of overall IT budgets. These are the headline findings from Spiceworks Ziff Davis’s (SWZD’s) latest Hardware Trends Report. The full report delves...
ITAM and IaaS: Better together Multi Cloud Hydra: Flexera’s state of cloud report found that 92% of organisations are using multi-cloud…but only 33% are using multi-cloud management tools. Image Credit Flexera recently released their “State of Cloud 2021” report and, ahead...
Whiteboard Wednesday Episode 14: What is Virtualisation? Virtual Machines, Hypervisors and Hosts explained Whiteboard Wednesday is me, a whiteboard and learning about all things IT Asset Management (ITAM), every Wednesday! This week, Virtualisation – What are virtual machines....
In this podcast AJ Witt is joined by Dean Bolton & Michael Corey from LicenseFortress & Art Beeman and Joel Muchmore from Beeman & Muchmore to discuss current topics in Oracle licensing in the context of the landmark Mars vs Oracle case. Joel & Art were lead litigators...
Public Cloud aka Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) plays a part in most roles within a business – ITAM, architects, finance, security, CFO, CIO etc. – and continues to grow in importance. I talked to Damien Juillard, COO of SamBox.io/Elee, about some of the challenges posed...
Cloud computing continues to grow and bring benefits across a range of business sectors but, at the same time, it can represent challenges for the finance/accounting departments and ultimately, the CFO. How you pay for cloud is a big consideration for many organisations – there...