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A quick round-up of ITAM industry news: UK SAM Services company Livingstone Technologies acquires USA SAM Services company Siwel. A great move – I’ve spoken to a number of Fortune 500 companies seeking the services of an independent provider (No commercial bias from selling SAM...
Our friends at the big G state that spending on public cloud is growing five times faster than other IT categories (Gartner, Public Cloud Services 2012-2018). Our own research from December last year (How to beat Azure and AWS sprawl) suggests that ITAM Review readers are keen to...
Thursday 17th September 2015 saw the ITAM Review return to London for the last in the series of our popular data centre licensing events, this time focusing on the prolific vendor that is Microsoft. 50 end users attended the full day event in Tavistock Square, and the day began with...
“Software Vulnerability Management” Flexera Software has acquired Secunia, a provider of software vulnerability management software. Secunia highlights software vulnerabilities and highlights patching priorities based on discovery within an enterprise environment. As both...
Martin Thompson presenting at the IBM and SAP seminar On April 28th, 2015, we hosted an IBM and SAP seminar in London, with the aim of providing ITAM professionals a day full of IBM and SAP advice and knowledge. The event was well attended with over 50 delegates as well as a number...
We’re back! Due to the unfortunate timing of ‘Storm Juno’ that struck on our last visit to New York, we are returning on May 12th to host our FREE to attend ITAM Tools Day Event. This is a unique opportunity for professionals to get together and see the leading...
This independent review is part of our SAP Tool Review. Also participating are: Brainwaregroup Snow Software Executive Summary Elevator Pitch FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications is a software license optimization solution that allows organisations to optimize their SAP estate....
News Forever 21 accused of pirating Adobe software – It was reported in February that fashion retailer Forever 21 have been knowingly pirating copies of Adobe software. According to Adobe, they even told Forever 21 they were in breach of copyright, but they continued to do so....
IBM is to accept sub-capacity reporting from Flexera Software’s FlexNet Manager in place of ILMT, TADd and SUA. Whilst we’ve heard of this being acceptable on a deal by deal basis in the past, this is the first time IBM has publicly recognised a SAM tool for meeting their compliance...
Ahead of our Oracle Seminar in New York later this month Martin Thompson talks with guests about the grey zone of Oracle negotiation, cloud options with Oracle and copyright principles and standing up against unreasonable claims View all our podcasts on SoundCloud or iTunes. Guests Ania...