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We’re pleased to announce that our LISA training platform has a new addition – Oracle licensing training. In conjunction with long-time ITAM Review collaborator – and internationally renowned Oracle consultant – Richard Spithoven of B-Lay, our bite-sized, self-paced Oracle...
This article is a guide to Red Hat JBOSS Middleware. See also our guide to Red Hat Enterprise Linux here. Subscriptions A Red Hat subscription is required for “each and every instance or installation”, in whole or in part, of a JBOSS product being used in your environment. These...
What are Containers? Containers can be viewed as the next step in virtualisation. They’re smaller, faster and easier to work with than traditional Virtual Machines (VMs). A Virtual Machine is, as the name suggests, a complete machine – so each one has its own Operating System...
Microsoft published a new blog post on February 1, 2018 and it is packed full on information relevant to the world of ITAM. Up to now, each release of Windows 10 has come with an 18-month support schedule. Now, in response to requests from large corporate customers, Microsoft have...
What is a Red Hat Subscription? A Red Hat Subscription provides the following: Access to the Software as well as access to updates, upgrades, corrections, security advisories and bug fixes for the Software (if and when available). It also allows customers to download all supported...
Playing software vendors at their own game I was speaking to Jochen Hagenlocher on The ITAM Review podcast recently (My recording with Jochen will go live in the New Year). Jochen shared a smart idea for thwarting audits before they start – The reverse click through EULA. What is...
In early 2017, Oracle issued a policy statement dedicated to helping customers better understand how to license Oracle products when the customers access the products via Amazon’s or Microsoft’s cloud services. Increasingly, companies are considering outsourcing datacenter workloads...
Vmware on Azure, say what? Say what now?! Microsoft have made quite the announcement – soon, organisations will be able to run VMWare virtual machines on Microsoft Azure. These two companies have been perennial rivals in the virtualization space for many years, does this signify...
Big Blue – dying or pivoting – either way audits are getting more aggressive Ahead of our Australian conference in a couple of weeks time I spoke with Eric Chiu of HW Fisher and Glynn Thomas of Software Sense on IBM Licensing and IBM’s current approach to audits...
Executive Summary The ITAM Review, an independent community for worldwide ITAM, SAM and Software Licensing professionals, has certified Snow Optimizer for SAP Software v2.0 as suitable for SAP License Management. ITAM Review’s SAP License Management Certification is designed to...
