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Rich Gibbons

Rich has been in the world of IT and software licensing since 2003, having been a software sales manager for a VAR, a Microsoft licensing endorsed trainer, and now an ITAM analyst looking at software licensing and cloud. A Northerner renowned for his shirts, Rich is a big Hip-Hop head, and loves travel, football in general (specifically MUFC), baseball, Marvel, and reading as many books as possible. Finding ways to combine all of these with ITAM & software licensing is always fun! Connect with Rich on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Best PracticeSAM

BANES Council forced to pay their Microsoft tax – or are they?

A recent report from Bath & North East Somerset (BANES) council gives some great insight into the world of local authorities, infrastructure, technical debt, and ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: April 16, 2019

Lyft and Amazon AWS

Best PracticeIaaS Management

Lyft picks up $300 million bill for Amazon AWS: Cloud contracts of the future

Lyft & Amazon AWS Lyft, probably the best-known Uber rival, recently filed its IPO (Initial Public Offering) documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: April 4, 2019

Software Publishers

Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop – Easy to deploy, difficult to price

Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now in public preview. When it was first announced in October, I covered what we knew about the service ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: April 2, 2019

ITAM News & Analysis

USA Conference 2019: Next Generation of ITAM – a recap

Our USA conference 2019 was awesome. I always enjoy myself at our conferences, but this has definitely set the bar high for all future events! ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 28, 2019

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Getting a head start with Internet of Things

There are many new areas of technology being talked about these days and, as an ITAM manager, it isn’t always easy to fully understand what ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 26, 2019

Oracle Java

Software Publishers

Oracle Java new licensing model

Oracle announced in 2018 that updates for Java 8 would become chargeable from January 2019, meaning organisations wishing to continue receiving updates for Java SE ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 21, 2019

Best PracticeSAM

Equifax and cybersecurity – a deep dive

Equifax, one of the largest credit agencies in the US, was the subject of a hack in 2017 that left over 148 million consumers affected. ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 15, 2019

Best PracticeIaaS Management

Gartner create Cloud Management Platforms Magic Quadrant

January 2019 saw the release of the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms. What have they looked at? Gartner have focused on platforms ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 6, 2019

ITAM News & Analysis

SAP licensing training added to LISA

I’m pleased to announce that our first SAP licensing course is now live and available to LISA subscribers worldwide. This course has been created in ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: January 23, 2019

Software Publishers

Microsoft take Azure sales direct from March 2019

Microsoft have announced changes to how organisations purchase Azure cloud services. Starting March 2019, Microsoft will introduce the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), a new offering ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: January 16, 2019

Best PracticeIaaS Management

AWS Outposts – cloud you can touch

Cloud computing continues to grow among businesses the world over, and Amazon have recently taken a big step to keep their offering front of mind ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: December 19, 2018

Best PracticeSecurity

Internet of Things devices: The number one attack target on the internet

F5 Networks, the long-standing networking and application services vendor, recently released the latest in a series of reports tracking the Internet of Things (IoT) security ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: December 17, 2018

Best PracticeSecurity

Crypto-currency malware running in your cloud environment

Management and governance of cloud assets is a big, and growing, area for ITAM professionals to tackle. As more assets sit in the cloud, they ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: December 5, 2018

Best PracticeSAM

Open Source databases to cloud vendors – get forked!

Open Source software vendors are starting to fight back at what they perceive to be the misuse of their products by global cloud providers. Sick ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: October 24, 2018

Software Publishers

Virtual insanity or virtual (desktop) reality?

Microsoft have announced Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure based offering that aims to make desktop virtualisation easier for organisations to deploy and manage. What ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: October 8, 2018

ITAM News & Analysis

Audit Defence training course added to LISA

I’m pleased to announce that our first Audit Defence training course is now live and available to LISA subscribers. This course has been created in ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: October 3, 2018

Software Publishers

Flexera help customers’ cloud scale right with acquisition of RightScale

Flexera yesterday (September 26, 2018) announced the purchase of RightScale, a leader in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management market. Market background Spending on ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: September 27, 2018

ITAM News & Analysis

Call for speakers for the next ITAM Review Conference USA conference

We’re building the agenda for the ITAM Review Conference USA 2019 and, while we’ve already got some fantastic speakers lined up, we need more. Do ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: September 26, 2018

Software Publishers

Microsoft extend support for Windows and Office 365

In a blog post on September 6, 2018, Microsoft announced several revisions to current support policies for Windows and Office 365 –which should all be ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: September 10, 2018

Best PracticeIaaS Management

IaaS Management – ITAM Review Market Guide

Here is the second of the ITAM Review Market Guides – this time looking at tools and services to help manage IaaS (Infrastructure as a ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: August 31, 2018

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