Oracle v Envisage Earlier this year (May 2021), Oracle started legal proceedings against Envisage Technologies LLC and the case centered around alleged under-licensing in their Amazon RDS environment. What is Amazon RDS? Amazon Relational Database Service ...
What are Microsoft assessments? According to Microsoft. “A template is a framework of controls for creating an assessment in Compliance Manager. Our comprehensive set of templates can help your organization comply with national, regional, and industry-specific ...
The day that many have been expecting/dreading is here – the first “proper” Microsoft 365 price increase has been announced. Microsoft’s logic is that, since the introduction of Office 365 in 2011, they have added 1,400 ...
Visual Studio licensing Visual Studio subscriptions are licensed Per User with each licensed user able to use. “any number of copies of the software and any prior version on any [dedicated] device” And may use the ...
Cloud conduct principles – realistic? April 2021 saw the release of “Ten Principles of Fair Software Licensing for Cloud Customers” by Cigref and CISPE – an attempt to bring some control and guidelines to how on-premises ...
Audits, acquisitions, and lawsuits 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 aim to cover some of the important ...
ITAM and IaaS. Better together Flexera recently released their “State of Cloud 2021” report and, ahead of our webinar diving into more detail on May 27th, I want to take a look at some of the ...
Micro Focus Academic Licensing There are three agreements available for Academic institutions. VLA for Education Academic License Agreement (ALA) School License Agreement (SLA) VLA for Education For this agreement, the rules are very similar to those ...
Back in April 2020, we reported on the U.S. lawsuit between Micro Focus and Express Scripts concerning alleged over-deployment of Micro Focus’s terminal emulation software. I initially looked at the pretrial summary judgment proceedings and then ...
“Frontline” Microsoft 365 licenses Microsoft has introduced 3 new “frontline” Microsoft 365 SKUs. Microsoft 365 F5 Security ($8 per user per month) Microsoft 365 F5 Compliance ($8 per user per month) Microsoft 365 F5 Security & ...