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Microsoft Licensing Boot Camps [San Diego, New York, London, Munich]

What? Directions on Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp. “Two days of graduate-level training to develop your own Microsoft licensing expertise and equip you with the critical knowledge you need to drive maximum value from your company’s Microsoft ...

Review: Altiris Asset Management Suite from Symantec

This independent review of Altiris™ Asset Management Suite from Symantec is part of our 2012 SAM Tools Review. See all participants and terms of the review here. Executive Summary Elevator Pitch Configuration-centric ITAM tool – significant shortcomings ...

The Barium Manifesto

The Mega-Vendor Arab Spring In my experience the vast majority of businesses are enthusiastic about technology and are happy to pay a fair price for it. However, software licensing is complex. Software licensing is a hindrance ...

Crowdsourced Favourites: Top 20 Most Read from 2012

Happy New Year to all ITAM Review Readers and thank you for your support in 2012. Total visitors to the site were up 68.62% on 2011 and we now regularly serve between 30,000 and 40,000 visitors ...

Diffusing the software license virtualisation time bomb

License management company License Dashboard is warning companies of the risks it says exist when working with software licensing under virtualised environments, in particular with dynamic provisioning or VMware’s ‘Distributed Resources Scheduler’ (DRS). The firm says ...

MPs claim zero tax payments by Oracle, Dell, CSC, Xerox, Symantec

Some of the biggest names in the UK technology industry have been operating under rather perplexing tax arrangements recently. It appears that Oracle, Xerox, Dell, CSC and Symantec all paid “no corporate tax” in the UK ...

Smart virtual machine licensing for 55% cost saving

Capacity transformation and control software company CiRBA has launched a new Software License Control System designed to enable organisations to reduce the costs associated with processor-based software licensing. The firm claims to be able to help ...

Datacentre RFID set to become $1BN Market

This article has been contributed by Jackie Luo, CEO of E-ISG Asset Intelligence. RFID’s application in data centres is on the way to becoming a $1 billion business. A new survey released by Frost & Sullivan ...

EVENT: IT Cost Optimization in an era of Virtualization [London, 12th March]

WHAT IT Cost Optimization in an era of Virtualization. “Learn about new technologies and practices that will enable you to achieve IT cost optimization and lower the total cost of ownership of your server estate. If ...