Rich Gibbons 
What are Containers? Containers can be viewed as the next step in virtualisation. They’re smaller, faster and easier to work with than traditional Virtual Machines ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: February 5, 2018
Microsoft published a new blog post on February 1, 2018 and it is packed full on information relevant to the world of ITAM. Up to ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: February 2, 2018
Spectre and Meltdown, two major CPU based vulnerabilities recently discovered by Google’s “Project Zero” team, have caused quite the stir over the first couple of ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: January 30, 2018
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, ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: January 25, 2018
Microsoft have announced, as of November 17, 2017, the availability of Azure Reserved Instances. This concept has existed with Amazon AWS for some time, so ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: December 6, 2017
Say what now?! Microsoft have made quite the announcement – soon, organisations will be able to run VMWare virtual machines on Microsoft Azure. These two ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: November 28, 2017
What’s the biggest problem with the Cloud? That it’s in the Cloud. Right? The technology and services seem excellent, the ease of use is very ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: September 19, 2017
You may already have heard talk about Microsoft introducing a SAM Managed Service – and, after attending the Microsoft Inspire partner conference, we’ve got more ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: September 14, 2017
Furthering their efforts to ‘re-imagine the software supply chain‘, Flexera are acquiring BDNA for an undisclosed amount. Who are BDNA? Started in Mountain View, California ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: September 12, 2017
The September update of Microsoft’s Product Terms and Online Service Terms (OST) both include updates related to the GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation. ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: September 7, 2017
Although it wasn’t mentioned in the Day 1 keynote at Microsoft Inspire, a pretty interesting announcement was made via the Windows Blog: Microsoft are adding ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: August 15, 2017
At Microsoft Inspire 2017, in Washington D.C, Flexera and Microsoft announced a new partnership – aimed at solving a problem in what they call “the ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: August 1, 2017
Last week saw Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, newly christened “Inspire”, take place and one of the announcements was Microsoft 365. What is it? Microsoft 365 ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: July 25, 2017
Last week was the ITAM Review 2017 UK conference. This was my first, proper, SAM focused, end-user conference and it was fantastic. The overarching theme ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: June 22, 2017
We all know that the world of licensing is fast paced and full of changes – and to that end, we’ve a new podcast for ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: June 2, 2017
What’s happening? It’s quite common for organisations to use a perpetual license of Office to access their Office 365 services such as Exchange Online, E1 ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 4, 2017
Visual Studio 2017 The latest release of Visual Studio is now in the Product Terms. Editions available are: Professional 2017 Professional 2017 Subscription Enterprise 2017 ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: April 25, 2017
Your PC uses a processor that isn’t supported on this version of Windows Microsoft announced towards the end of 2016 that Windows 10 would be ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: April 5, 2017
Here at The ITAM Review, we’ve heard your requests for software licensing training – and we’re working hard to bring you what you need to ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: March 30, 2017
Product Terms Premium Assurance The big addition to this month’s Product Terms is the availability of Premium Assurance. What is it? These new offerings are ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: March 23, 2017