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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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Forrester’s Impressions: VMware Explore 2023

Forrester IT

In recent years, VMware has faced major headwinds: It migrated its clients from on-premises to public cloud, changed to a cloud-native application development paradigm, shifted to subscription licensing, had frequent cycles of M&A activities, and experienced unfavorable macroeconomic environments.

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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement

CIO Business Intelligence

Frequently, organizations are looking not just to trim costs, but for value-added services that few software vendors may be willing to provide. Say goodbye to those automated email responses to priority 1 support tickets, which often provide you with a list of to-dos to complete before you can even talk to a human being.

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Add Microsoft Store Application to ConfigMgr | SCCM | MSfB

Anoop

Let’s understand how to add Microsoft store application to ConfigMgr. Microsoft Store for Business license and admin access is required to complete this activity. MSfB gives opportunity organizations to automatically to make store applications available for SCCM admins. Subscribe YouTube Channel [link].

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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The Huge Cost of Goliath’s Software Licensing Model for Enterprises

KineticData

The Huge Cost of Goliath’s Software Licensing Model for Enterprises. His suite of applications includes solutions for incident management, change management, asset management, and others. Have you met Goliath? He’s a familiar leader of IT service management software.