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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....
Most people are aware that Oracle classifies – in its Partitioning policy – the different virtualization/server partitioning technologies into: Soft Partitioning Hard Partitioning Oracle Trusted Partitions for Oracle Engineered Systems The most commonly used virtualization...
Virtualization is a great thing and is a massive help to most organisations. However, it also raises a number of complexities around software, software licensing and software asset management. After the datacentre, the virtual environment probably poses the next biggest risk and...
The ITAM Review invites you to take part in our short research survey around Microsoft Licensing and the patterns of behaviour organisations follow with Microsoft products. This is the first piece of Microsoft research we have conducted this year, so we would really appreciate...
ITAM Review Podcast Episode 11: An introduction to Microsoft Virtualisation In this podcast I was joined by Mathias Knops of Aspera and Robert Paton and Mark Hobson from Concorde to discuss Microsoft Virtualisation. Topics covered in this podcast: How Microsoft software can...
“You can’t talk about SAP licensing without addressing the elephant in the room – indirect access” Ahead of the SAM Summit taking place in Chicago, 23-25 June, I chatted to John Emmitt, Senior Marketing Manager at Flexera Software. In this interview John shares...
Live by the rule, “Content is King.” Ahead of the IAITAM Spring Conference taking place in Las Vegas, April 28 – May 1, I interviewed Robbie Plourde, VP of Consulting and Services at Aspera, about his presentation “Strategic License Management in the Virtualized World”. ...
Wayne Jackson Ahead of the Compliance Manager Summit 10-11 March in Santa Clara, we interviewed speaker and Director at Accordo Group, Wayne Jackson about his thoughts on non-compliant licenses, customer satisfaction, software audits and the future of the ITAM industry. Q. Companies...
“Heterogeneity on this scale creates both technical and licensing challenges for enterprises to overcome.” Analysts have predicted that in the next two years, over half of a company’s IT applications will be located in the ‘cloud’. This has significant implications...
This article has been contributed by Julie Machal‐Fulks, of Scott & Scott, LLP. Many enterprises are exploring virtual technology as a way to reduce both hardware and software technology costs related to IBM solutions. For disaster recovery, security, and resource allocation...