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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.
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ITAM News & Analysis

Les caractéristiques du produit Gestion des coûts Amazon AWS : un guide rapide

  Amazon AWS est le leader de marché dans le domaine de l’Infrastructure en tant que Service (IaaS), avec un nombre en croissance constante de ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: September 3, 2019

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Starting out as a SAM Consultant

ITAM is a growing industry. Salaries have risen 15% in two years, and more organisations are hiring for ITAM roles, but it’s taking longer than ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: August 20, 2019

Microsoft change HUP for Office 365

Software Publishers

Microsoft changes Home Use Program to favour Office 365

Microsoft have long offered a “Home Use Program” (HUP) for Software Assurance customers, enabling employees to purchase reduced price copies of certain software for non-commercial ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: August 15, 2019

Azure Dedicated Host

Software Publishers

Azure Dedicated Host – Microsoft’s new cloud offering

Microsoft have recently announced a new service in public preview – Azure Dedicated Hosts. This new service allows you to run dedicated servers within the ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: August 13, 2019

Microsoft Cloud Licensing

Software Publishers

This year’s biggest Microsoft licensing change (so far) – what you need to know.

Microsoft have made a new move in the Battle of the Clouds, with licensing changes that restrict competing clouds – whilst simultaneously making things more ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: August 13, 2019

Microsoft Customer Agreement

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Microsoft Customer Agreement: The way forward?

Earlier in 2019, we saw the introduction of the “Microsoft Customer Agreement” (MCA) – a new agreement aimed at customers buying Azure directly from Microsoft, ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: August 1, 2019

LISA ITAM Training savings

ITAM News & Analysis

LISA ITAM Training – Summer Savings!

It’s summer and it’s sunny, so it’s the perfect time to get skilled up! To celebrate the sun we’re having here in the UK, we’re ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: July 25, 2019

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Podcast Episode 67: “Asset Managers can bring unique value to the cloud”, Patricia Adams – Flexera

  I sat down with Patricia Adams, Senior Director of Strategy for Flexera, to talk about the cloud (primarily IaaS like Microsoft Azure and Amazon ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: July 11, 2019

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ITAM News & Analysis

ITAM Training: New LISA courses and exams added

We’re always working hard to add new content to LISA, our online licensing and ITAM training platform, and have recently added a whole host of ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: July 4, 2019

ITAM News & Analysis

Wisdom UK 2019: A recap on our latest ITAM event

Last month (June), we held Wisdom UK 2019 – the first conference under our new name “Wisdom” and, word to the wise, it was fantastic. ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: July 2, 2019

Software Publishers

Microsoft and Oracle = Frenemies, Flexera’s RISCy business, plus Salesforce & Google want a piece of the BI

Microsoft and Oracle make friends? Splinter and Shredder. Odysseus and Poseidon. Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira. There are some people you just wouldn’t expect to ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: June 27, 2019

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Call for speakers: Wisdom Australia 2019 & USA 2020

Upcoming conferences With our conferences newly named “Wisdom”, November 2019 sees us head to Melbourne for our 3rd Australian conference, and then in March 2020 ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: June 18, 2019

Software Publishers

IBM Mainframe licensing changes: what’s old is new

Some of you may be surprised to learn that IBM mainframes are still a thing, while others will still have them as a key part ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: June 6, 2019

Pre-owned software legalities

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Second-hand Software: Legalities & Business Models

This article was written by Rich Gibbons of ITAM Review and Noel Unwin of Discount Licensing. In July 2012, the second-hand software market received a ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: June 5, 2019

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Pre-owned Software: Yes, it’s okay

This article has been written by Rich Gibbons of ITAM Review and Michael Vilain of Relicense. The pre-owned software market has been around for longer ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: June 3, 2019

Best PracticeSaaS Management

Wisdom UK 2019 – Taking ITAM outside IT

Our Wisdom UK 2019 conference theme is “Taking ITAM outside IT”. As industries, businesses, and roles continue to morph, modernise, and multiply – the world ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: May 21, 2019

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Dell + Microsoft = VMware on Azure

Running VMware workloads on Microsoft Azure was first discussed towards the end of 2017, around the same time “VMware Cloud on AWS” was launched. There ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: May 16, 2019

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Best PracticeIaaS Management

Amazon AWS Cost Management features: A quick guide

Amazon AWS is the market leader for IaaS, with an ever increasing number of companies spending a seemingly ever increasing amount on Amazon’s public cloud ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: May 14, 2019

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Sophos Cloud Optix – you can’t secure what you can’t see

Sophos, the British FTSE 250 security company, have launched a dedicated public cloud security product – Cloud Optix. Cloud Security As many benefits as the ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: May 9, 2019

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Best PracticeIaaS Management

How Netflix over-deployed 10,000 instances in Amazon AWS

A Twitter thread by a Netflix engineer gives a great insight into some of the intricacies of cloud – in this case Amazon AWS – ... Read more

Written by: Rich Gibbons

Published on: April 23, 2019

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