News, reviews and resources for worldwide ITAM, SAM and Licensing professionals.
“As-A-Service” is everywhere in technology. Looking through my own subscriptions I have service contracts for ink (HP Instant Ink), entertainment (Apple Music & Netflix) and even fitness apps (Strava and Zwift). Even the mighty Apple is trying to pivot towards being primarily...
This article is a collaboration between AJ Witt of The ITAM Review and Paul King, Senior Consultant at DeskCenter Solutions. In it, we discuss how IT Asset Lifecycle Automation delivers business value, reduces the burden on IT, and delights your users. Executive Summary Digital Transformation...
In the lead up to our Wisdom Australia conference this November, I speak with a few of our conference sponsors; David Jenson, CEO of Crayon and Keiren Tilbrook of TMG to discuss the current ITAM market down under and what to expect in years to come. Wisdom Australia Preview Podcast...
Lyft et Amazon AWS Lyft, probablement le concurrent d’Uber le plus connu, a déposé ses documents d’introduction en bourse (IPO) auprès de la Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) américaine et le Document d’enregistrement S-1 donne un aperçu de la situation financière...
Oracle a annoncé en 2018 que les mises à jour Java 8 deviendraient payantes à partir de janvier 2019, c’est-à-dire que les organisations qui souhaitaient continuer à recevoir des mises à jours pour Java SE 8 devaient prendre des mesures. Oracle préfère que ses clients achètent...
IBM have announced a new, nicer, approach to license compliance – via the IBM Authorized SAM Provider Offering (IASP). What is IASP? Well, if you search online, the internet will tell you it is an “independent auxillary storage pool” – made by IBM. It seems we’ve got...
In a recent announcement, Microsoft have revealed changes to several Software Assurance benefits, with the first changes happening in February 2020 (just 5 months from now). While there doesn’t appear to be one place with all the information, I’ve done my best to bring it together...
Oracle are facing a class action lawsuit focusing on their cloud sales and whether they used improper tactics to falsify the success of their cloud products. The claim is led by Frankfurt based Union Asset Management Holding AG, an asset manager with almost $400 billion in assets...
This is the first “speaker spotlight” article for Wisdom Australia 2019 – a chance for you to see some of the wonderful speakers and sessions we’ve got in store for you this November in Melbourne. If you’ve not yet registered, go and do it now – https://www.itassetmanagement.net/event/itam-review-annual-conference-2019-australia/...
At Inspire, their annual partner conference, Microsoft announced upcoming licensing changes for 3 products: Dynamics 365 PowerApps Flow The changes discussed below will take effect October 1, 2019 and this article is based on information released at Microsoft Inspire and via subsequent...