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Snow's Gartner halo slips, Flexera & ServiceNow ascendant in SAM Tools Magic Quadrant 2019
April saw the release of Gartner’s 2nd Magic Quadrant for SAM tools. Magic Quadrants aim to highlight solutions to a particular requirement by ranking them on two dimensions – completeness of vision and ability to deliver. ... -
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 – and how even those who know what they’re doing don’t always ... -
Get to grips with unmanaged cloud spend
This article is the first of a four part series by AJ Witt of ITAM Review and Josh Brazee of Aspera. The series explores concepts & practical advice for managing Cloud deployments to minimise cost and risk whilst ... -
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 Microsoft licensing. What’s happening? Relating to a decision taken on March ... -
Building confidence in your License Entitlement
A recent thread on our Forum opened a discussion around what constitutes a proof of license entitlement. This article explores that discussion in more detail, providing practical tips for recording entitlements in your SAM system in ... -
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 (SEC), and the S-1 Registration Document gives an insight into a ... -
EU Directive extends useful life of servers and storage from 2020
Until recently the goal of EU “Ecodesign” directives was to focus on reducing energy consumption. Europeans have seen this in force on all sorts of devices from fridges to vacuum cleaners, it also includes IT equipment. ... -
Market Guide - Free Inventory Tools
Interested in finding out what’s running on your network but don’t have budget? Or maybe you’d like to verify the inventory your primary paid-for tool is providing? If so a good option is to deploy a ... -
Frictionless SaaS - Trends for 2019
SaaS Subscription Management vendor Blissfully have published their SaaS Trends report for 2019. This report is based on aggregated and anonymised data from their customers and provides a number of fascinating insights into the SaaS market. ...