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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.
ITAM action plan

Best Practice

Creating an ITAM clean-up action plan

Creating an ITAM clean-up action plan will mean that, after any major change – particularly one that’s unexpected – you will have a checklist of ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 19, 2020

ITAM & Coronavirus

ITAM News & Analysis

ITAM and Coronavirus: What’s the impact?

I don’t want to jump on the bandwagon and, in the grand scheme of things there are bigger, much more immediate concerns, but I do ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 17, 2020

Microsoft Extended Support Updates

Software Publishers

Microsoft Extended Security Updates – what’s the deal?

This article was written by Rich Gibbons, ITAM Review and Damien Juillard, Elée / Sambox.io Following the end of support for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 10, 2020

State of UK ITAM

ITAM News & Analysis

State of UK ITAM Survey

It’s always useful for us to get a view of how certain subjects are affecting ITAM professionals and our latest “State of UK ITAM” survey ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 5, 2020

Audits in 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

How much of a focus should software audits be for an ITAM manager in 2020 and beyond? Part 2.

Here’s part 2 of what our Wisdom USA sponsors had to say in answer to our question “How much of a focus should software audits ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 5, 2020

Audits in 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

How much of a focus should software audits be for an ITAM manager in 2020 and beyond? Part 1.

With reports that software audits are slowing down and the increasing move to cloud within many organisations, does that mean software audits are not important ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 3, 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom USA 2020 Speaker Spotlight: Data Governance & Open Source

This is the fifth “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom USA 2020 – a chance for you to see some of the fantastic speakers and sessions ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: March 3, 2020

Software vendor financial results

Software Publishers

Software vendor financial results #1 (Adobe, Amazon AWS, Google, Micro Focus, Microsoft, ServiceNow)

Software vendor financial results can be more interesting for ITAM & SAM managers than they might first appear. Looking at how the software vendors are ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 27, 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom USA 2020 Speaker Spotlight: Adobe, audits, and making use of data

This is the 4th “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom USA 2020 – a chance for you to see some of the fantastic speakers and sessions ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 25, 2020

Digital Access

Software Publishers

SAP Digital Access Adoption Program (DAAP) set to expire

April 2018 saw the introduction of SAP’s Digital Access (DA) – a new way to license potentially tricky Indirect Access situations. Then May 2019 saw ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 25, 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom USA 2020 Speaker Spotlight: ITAM and ITAD

This is the 3rd “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom USA 2020 – a chance for you to see some of the fantastic speakers and sessions ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 21, 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom USA 2020 Speaker Spotlight: License Management & Arnie

This is the 2nd “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom USA 2020 – a chance for you to see some of the fantastic speakers and sessions ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 18, 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom USA 2020 Speaker Spotlight: ITAM – Eat, Pray, Love

This is the first “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom USA 2020 – a chance for you to see some of the fantastic speakers and sessions ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 11, 2020

Artificial Intelligence and ITAM

ITAM News & Analysis

How Artificial Intelligence will change the (ITAM) world

This article was written by Rich Gibbons of ITAM Review with Peter Rowe, Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, Crayon Australia and Ulrik Roland, Group Vice President, Software ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: February 4, 2020

Wisdom UK 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom UK 2020: Call for Speakers

Wisdom UK 2020 is less than five months away! Our world-renowned Wisdom conference touches down in London for the 5th year and sees us returning ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: January 28, 2020

News

ITAM News & Analysis

ITAM industry news roundup – January 2020

There is always something happening somewhere and keeping track of it all can be, to say the least, difficult! Our ITAM industry news round ups ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: January 23, 2020

software agreement

Software Publishers

Micro Focus software audit lawsuit: Why defining metrics is important

Another software audit case has gone to court – February 2019 saw the start of a case between Micro Focus v Express Scripts Inc. The ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: January 21, 2020

Microsoft online summit

Software Publishers

Microsoft Licensing Online Summit: A Recap

On December 11, 2019 we ran our 3rd Online Summit – “Making Sense of Microsoft”. This was our most successful Online Summit to date with ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: January 14, 2020

Azure Spot Virtual Machines

Software Publishers

Microsoft introduce Azure Spot Virtual Machines

Microsoft have announced the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines – to replace the current preview of Azure low-priority Virtual Machines, which will be retired ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: January 7, 2020

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom Australia 2019 – a recap

November 2019 saw ITAM Review return to Australia and, although it was our third conference there, it had many firsts too: Our first sold out ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: December 17, 2019

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