CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
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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CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 22, 2024
When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. As we look at our own licenses, it could be a significant uphill battle on cost structure,” he says.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
With Microsoft, for example, organisations can leverage their existing licenses, allowing them to use tools like Microsoft Defender (an antivirus solution) and Microsoft Sentinel (for threat detection and security automation). In this way, CIOs and their teams can easily extend their existing security systems to cover new AI applications.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
We had third-party independent consultants come in to analyze certain systems and licensing. But in early 2018, the first major hiccup hit us as the independent party who did the audit missed the terms of use on some of our licensing. Some licenses aren’t valid if you don’t own the rights to the lower-level equipment.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 10, 2024
To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Kevin Grayling, CIO, Florida Crystals Florida Crystals It’s ASR that had the more modern SAP installation, S/4HANA 1709, running in a virtual private cloud hosted by Virtustream, while its parent languished on SAP Business Suite. We’ve done a post-implementation review and the business case is 100% sound,” he says.
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