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Microsoft take Azure sales direct from March 2019
Microsoft have announced changes to how organisations purchase Azure cloud services. Starting March 2019, Microsoft will introduce the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), a new offering for Azure services which will make the “licensing transaction process easier, ... -
IBM offload BigFix – what does this mean for IT Asset Management?
IBM announced the sale of a number of software products including BigFix & Lotus Notes to HCL in December. HCL are a large, global digital technology company headquartered in Noida, India. The list includes several products ... -
Oracle Verified Tools - Market Guide
Just published is our guide to the small market for Oracle-verified inventory tools. Oracle-verified tools inventory Oracle Database deployments to a level that will satisfy Oracle LMS during an audit. Oracle haven’t verified any new tools ... -
Red vs Blue, why Red Hat acquisition may revolutionise IBM
2018 is shaping up to be the Year of Open Source as industry giants scramble to invest in the software and infrastructure powering modern applications. This year has already seen Microsoft acquire Github and donate many ... -
Virtual insanity or virtual (desktop) reality?
Microsoft have announced Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure based offering that aims to make desktop virtualisation easier for organisations to deploy and manage. What does it do? Its big things is that it will enable ... -
Flexera help customers’ cloud scale right with acquisition of RightScale
Flexera yesterday (September 26, 2018) announced the purchase of RightScale, a leader in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) management market. Market background Spending on public cloud – services such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure ... -
Microsoft extend support for Windows and Office 365
In a blog post on September 6, 2018, Microsoft announced several revisions to current support policies for Windows and Office 365 –which should all be positive for customers. Microsoft product support has long been the subject ... -
Oracle on VMware – adding non-standard terms to your Oracle agreement
Most people are aware that Oracle classifies – in its Partitioning policy – the different virtualization/server partitioning technologies into. Soft Partitioning Hard Partitioning Oracle Trusted Partitions for Oracle Engineered Systems The most commonly used virtualization technology ... -
ILMT no longer a Get Out of Jail Free Card in IBM audits
This article has been contributed by Eric Chiu of FisherITS Customers can still be fined for violating IBM’s Sub-Capacity licensing terms even after deploying the ILMT tool. This article takes a look at the areas on which organisations must ...