Tom has more than twenty years of experience as responsible for Marketing and Communications at large and medium sized companies such as IBM Denmark, BEC and HTS (now Danish Industry).
Besides his role as Marketing and Event Manager at ITAMOrg, Tom runs a consultancy helping IT organizations work professionally and continuously with market communication.
Software bills of materials, the ingredient lists for software, are important elements to companies’ cybersecurity strategies, but only if they use SBOMs effectively to manage risk, Georgianna Shea and Logan Weber of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies write....
The Association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) is outraged by Microsoft’s price increases for Azure, OneDrive, MS 365, and Teams for business customers. CISPE Secretary General Francisco Mingorance accuses Microsoft of raising prices...
SINGAPORE - A Singapore company was sued for more than $400,000 by an American software company, after its employee installed an unauthorised version of the latter’s software on an unused laptop he found at the workplace. In its suit, Siemens Industry Software...
York, 02 February, 2023: Trustmarque, a leading provider of IT solutions and services backed by One Equity Partners (“OEP”), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Livingstone a leading independent, global provider of software and cloud asset...
In September 2022, the Biden-Harris administration issued a memo, Enhancing the Security of the Software Supply Chain through Secure Software Development Practices, which built upon existing executive orders and directives to safeguard federal information systems....
If your organisation uses IBM software, the following predictions I have made for 2023 will provide some food for thought as well as some useful advice. This information will be available in two parts with this post focusing on the likely increase in IBM audits and on...
NASA uses thousands of unique software products from hundreds of vendors in its efforts to advance science, technology, aeronautics, Earth studies, and space exploration. Each software application and program comes with a license—a contract between the entity creating...
Digital transformation continues to expand unabated across organizations of all sizes and industries of all categories. With this transformation comes the need for rapid adoption of new technologies and new ways of acquiring and provisioning the resources that...
SAN FRANCISCO, November 1, 2022 (Newswire.com) - Anglepoint, the leading provider of Software Asset Management (SAM) Managed Services for the Global 2000, is announcing the completed acquisition of UK-based Fisher Information Technology Services (FisherITS). FisherITS...
NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A federal jury in Detroit ordered Ford Motor Co (F.N) to pay Versata Software Inc $104.6 million in damages for breaching a 2004 licensing contract and misappropriating trade secrets. Jurors deliberated over two days before holding Ford...
The FinOps discipline—cloud financial management—is maturing. Originally focused on cloud cost management and optimization for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), the financial management practices of FinOps are expanding into other...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new Binding Operational Directive (BOD) that directs federal agencies in the country to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities on their networks six months from now. To that end, Federal...
The Commission presented yesterday a proposal for a new Cyber Resilience Act to protect consumers and businesses from products with inadequate security features. A first ever EU-wide legislation of its kind, it introduces mandatory cybersecurity requirements for...
Microsoft's cloud competitors have reacted negatively to changes the company announced this week to licensing, claiming that they are anti-competitive and will deter customers from moving to other cloud providers. The Redmond giant confirmed major revisions and...
Many organizations are taken by surprise when faced with the total cost of a vendor audit, this oversight can result in a substantial amount of unbudgeted IT spend. It is important therefore, for SPVM and IT Asset Managers understand the total risk posed by audits,...
A contract renewal with a major vendor is always a key milestone for any procurement or ITAM professional as it provides the opportunity to showcase your true worth to your employer. Getting this process right is critical as the agreed terms will dictate the...
Oracle support prices are set to rise by 8 percent in the US, and the company will also impose increases commensurate with inflation in other regions. US consumer prices hit annual inflation of 8.8 percent in June, another 40-year high, prompting Big Red to look again...
Microsoft has announced significant upcoming updates to their Cloud and licensing terms and conditions via a blog post by Brad Smith, President and Vice-Chair. Although the blog post is addressed to European Cloud Providers, Microsoft later confirmed that the most...
What’s the optimal way to manage cloud finances, one of the core disciplines of a FinOps practice? The answer largely relies on automating efforts, but many FinOps practitioners haven’t taken full advantage of opportunities available to them or of the savings...
There’s no deficiency in tools and services when it comes to looking for your first or next Software Asset Management solution. A quick search will leave you with multiple tools and companies that offer SAM services to choose from, so it is important to know – what...
PowerShell can ID installed software, application services, and scheduled tasks, which can help with planning and management. Being able to quickly identify what software is installed on your servers has value for a host of reasons. Managing software licensing costs...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new solutions with IT management software company, Flexera, and IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management (ARM) to help organizations use automation to streamline IT asset management. The new solutions are aimed at helping...
Cloud migrations can therefore be cost-effective, even with Big Red’s nasty licenses Microsoft thinks it has cracked the code for cost-effective Oracle-to-cloud migrations. In a white paper released over the weekend, Microsoft argues that there are savings to be had...
A US body has launched a legal challenge to Vizio, a TV manufacturer, for failing to provide the source code for the software in its smart TV, which may have implications for other software developers, says legal firm, Webber Wentzel. Leanne Mostert, partner, and...
The new year presents us with the opportunity to look back at notable software vendor events of 2021 and consider what is ahead of us in 2022, for all things enterprise software asset management related. According to Gartner, worldwide, IT spending for 2021 is...
According to Database Trends and Applications, the past year has seen a drastically increasing amount of software license audits. The reasons are many, among which are the impacts of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, contributing towards uncertainty in the market and a...
Oracle has had a busy 2021 in the federal court system suing customers and third parties for copyright infringement relating to software audits, attacking maintenance & support competitors such as Rimini Street, and defending itself and its subsidiary NetSuite for...
Ensuring return on investment from a SAM programme continues to be a challenge for IT leaders. How can businesses ensure their SAM spend is providing value, leading to cost savings, better decision making and software licence compliance? More difficult still, when...
Starting March 1, 2022, most Microsoft 365 business and enterprise subscription plans will see a price increase of up to 20%, as confirmed by Microsoft earlier this year. If you are a business that is considering moving to cloud, however, not sure if a complex...
We are pleased to introduce a new and more flexible way to pay for Power Apps and related Power Platform services. Starting today in preview, customers can use an Azure subscription to cover their Power Apps and Dataverse costs based on actual usage. Historically,...
Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) has published a report on how the licensing antics of legacy software firms could distort the cloud marketplace. The industry group is keen that protection from some of the chicanery turn up in the upcoming EU...
Cloud spending is now a significant part of a company’s IT budget, yet nearly one-third of it goes to waste. Here are some strategies to help you optimize. Are you overspending on cloud services? If your organization is like most, you are -- you just may not know it....
Software developers don’t typically have to worry about the costs of running their services, but as cloud costs continue to rise, more and more will have to learn to embrace cloud cost optimization. That means adopting finops. Previously the purview of dedicated...
Lansweeper is a Flanders-based software company that provides IT asset management (ITAM) software solutions. The company recently secured EUR 130 million from Insight Partners, a New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm. Insight Partners joins...
Cloud cost optimization is rapidly moving up the agenda as the dust settles on the technology decisions driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the key tools and principles to help developers stop cloud costs outpacing revenue. To the concern of finance officers...
PeopleCert announces agreement to acquire AXELOS, establishing its position as the global leader in Project Management and IT qualifications London, United Kingdom: PeopleCert International Limited (“PeopleCert”), a global leader in exam delivery and the certification...
Having worked with numerous Microsoft customers on licensing reviews and audit defences, I have become accustomed to the areas of Microsoft licensing agreements where businesses fail to fully protect their software investments. Most businesses pay more than they need...
Microsoft is tightening the same rules in Spain, where the company has started fighting those who use pirated versions of Windows. In the latest move, a woman from Madrid was sentenced to a total of 6 months in prison. According to the reports, the woman was using a...
Oracle this month filed a lawsuit against Envisage Technologies, claiming the Bloomington, Indiana-based IT firm has been violating its copyrights by running Oracle Database on Amazon Web Services in an improper way. The complaint [PDF], filed in a US federal district...
Microsoft is being sued by UK reseller ValueLicensing for £270m in damages over claims of restrictive contractual practices and abuse of dominance. The claim, filed in the UK's High Court in London, asserts that Microsoft stifled the supply of preowned Microsoft...
With nearly a third of the population having received their first vaccination, and talk of all legal restrictions regarding social distancing to be lifted by June 21st, there’s certainly light at the end of the tunnel; an indication that life could soon return to...
Keeping a lid on cloud-based services spending requires constant vigilance and attention to detail. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an accelerator of cloud services adoption. According to a report by International Data Corp., total worldwide spending on cloud...
Social and communication skills are crucial to engage stakeholders, convey technical information, and motivate them to comply with corporate policies. Technical leadership keeps failing to tame “shadow IT.” We firmly believe that the problem’s solution is erroneously...
Global leading manufacturer of Software Asset Management solutions and services pledges accelerated growth under the unified USU brand Boston, January 28, 2021. As a Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions leader, Aspera customers save approximately $10 billion...
The combination cements Ivanti’s position as the only Enterprise Service Management vendor to offer end-to-end service and asset management from IT to lines of business and from every endpoint to the IoT edge SALT LAKE CITY, UT and COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — January 26,...
When it comes software security bugs, a quick count by The Stack reveals that 19,249 vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) were allocated in 2020 – over 52 every single day. Plenty of these were unlikely to be exploited in the wild, challenging to abuse, or generally...
Want to know how to distinguish IaaS from a data connector, or a software license audit from a software license management tool? Then you are in the right place! Software Asset Management is the business strategy for reclaiming budget and maximizing savings by...
Nine months after filing a patent infringement suit against Airbnb, IBM is dropping its allegations as part of a joint, confidential settlement. IBM (NYSE: IBM) and San Francisco-based Airbnb (Nasdaq: ABNB) filed a joint motion to dismiss the case Wednesday. Neither...
Blamed on Russia, the hack infiltrated federal agencies, including homeland security and nuclear programs. Microsoft and other companies are victims too. Earlier this year, hackers compromised software made by a cybersecurity company you might not have heard of. The...
A contract renewal with a major vendor is always a key milestone for any procurement or ITAM professional as it provides the opportunity to showcase your true worth to your employer. Getting this process right is critical as the agreed terms will dictate the...
How can software asset management (SAM) teams navigate an array of challenges while creating efficient digital infrastructure and managing spend? Cyndi Tackett, vice president, product marketing at Flexera, shares top SAM initiatives for 2021, the maturity of your SAM...
There’s a cloud computing question among IT and business leaders that has been around for a while: How much cloud flexibility and choice is enough, and how much is too much? This year, not surprisingly, it has taken on heightened importance with the acceleration of...
Thoma Bravo must really like Flexera, an IT asset management company out of Chicago. The private equity firm bought the company for the second time today. Sources told TechCrunch the price was $2.85 billion. Technically, Thoma Bravo is getting a majority stake in the...
The European Parliament has voted in favour of making products more durable and easier to repair and recycle, and by providing consumers with more rights and information. The European Parliament wants to boost sustainability by promoting reuse and repairs and by...
As historically paperbound processes advance from automation to intelligence, procurement departments must address data and culture change. Up to half of the purchase orders from the purchasing department at Chicago-based manufacturer JBT required a change before the...
Stans, Switzerland 10 November 2020 SoftwareONE Holding AG, a leading global provider of end-to-end software and cloud technology solutions, today announced that it has agreed to acquire the remaining 60% of InterGrupo, following its initial investment in 2019....
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of presenting to an external forum of ITAM practitioners reference future challenges. Within this discussion we looked at impacts of cloud computing growth, AI, RPA and IoT expansion as key demand drivers, alongside an increased...
Atlassian is ending server licence sales and requiring customers to migrate either to its cloud services or to expensive Data Center editions. The Aussie biz makes software development and collaboration tools including Jira, for issue and project tracking, Confluence...
Lansweeper, the leading IT Asset Management platform, has today announced the acquisition of Fing, the network scanning and device recognition app, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition extends and enhances Lansweeper's own IT network discovery capabilities by...
Last year IBM forecast that Hybrid Cloud would be a $1 trillion market opportunity by 2020 and bet big with the acquisition of Red Hat. Two recent announcements highlight in different ways the building momentum behind Big Blue’s hybrid cloud strategy. The first...
The aim to achieve cost management, cost reduction and cost avoidance could potentially end up costing more than anticipated if not given due consideration As the UK is now officially in a recession, the need for businesses to look for areas to reduce costs and avoid...
Even if it’s not dominating the market, Oracle Cloud is gaining more users every day. As with most cloud models, there is the misconception that moving to the cloud and managing your assets there is an easy task. In practice, we see that managing correctly the Oracle...
Dot 1: IT Asset Management as a discipline has been around for quite a while. As an industry trend it is (surprisingly) receiving less attention than it used to – Gartner, for example, no longer tracks it as a Magic Quadrant. However, not only are IT assets still in...
Many companies’ “offices” grew exponentially when people started working from home. Those same companies now have to manage their IT infrastructures while also addressing requirements for security, compliance, procurement and employee experience. That’s where Oomnitza...
There are many advantages to software asset management; it can provide you with valuable cost-saving opportunities, and it can make sure that your software environment is both legally sound and safe from security threats. However, many companies hesitate to adopt...
SoftwareONE acquires B-lay to strengthen its industry-leading Software Lifecycle Management offering for SAP and Oracle SoftwareONE Holding AG, a leading global provider of end-to-end software and cloud technology solutions, today announced that it will acquire B-lay,...
EU data watchdog claims Microsoft's contract terms make it difficult to enforce GDPR The EU’s data protection watchdog has recommended that public institutions hold back on purchasing any Microsoft software after identifying several major concerns with existing...
RightScale, now a part of Flexera, has published its annual state of the cloud report. Every year Flexera does a survey of enterprises and SMBs to analyze the adoption of cloud. This year, Flexera surveyed over 750 technical professionals on their adoption of cloud...
Oh, the joys of software licensing, empowering you with the technology your company needs to grow. Of the software licenses out there, at MetrixData360, we have seen many people come to us asking for help regarding their Microsoft SPLA licensing, a delightful jewel in...
The UK & Ireland SAP User Group has called on SAP to further extend its indirect software access licensing programme to give users time to respond to project timetables delayed by COVID-19. While welcoming SAP's recent decision to extend the Digital Access...
Supporting the Transition to Remote Working The dramatic change to the ‘normal’ workday as a result of COVID-19 has compelled businesses into making IT changes at a breakneck pace. Rapid decisions have to be made for the survival of an organisation or to ensure the...
IT contract negotiation has always been a difficult dance between customers and vendors, but the coronavirus pandemic means there are new rules to navigate on both sides. The coronavirus pandemic will have short-, medium- and long-term implications for how IT buyers...
Microsoft’s software license compliance strategy is avoiding the “overt” software license audit. Instead it prefers to request a “friendly” review with its customers to check Microsoft license compliance and requirements. No matter how informal it feels, it’s crucial...
A vulnerability in the High Availability (HA) service of Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access a sensitive part of the system with a high-privileged account. The vulnerability is due to a system account that has...
The complex web of software and hardware components and their licensing schemes makes it difficult for healthcare organizations to upgrade or patch systems that prove to be vulnerable. When your family opened up that brand-new computer when you were a kid, you didn’t...
A Primer on The Most Popular and Effective Software Licensing Models For Maximizing Revenue What’s one thing that nearly all businesses, across all industries, have in common? It doesn’t matter if you work at a large corporation or a small start-up, whether your...
Robin Fry outlines a hidden risk in one class of liabilities Within the next 3 weeks, many corporates will be initiating their Financial Year 2019 audits. The exhaustive process will include requests to internal stakeholders and key external advisers to formally...
Following our reporting from 2018 that Oracle was seeking $8.8 billion in damages from Google, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to hear Google’s petition appealing that its use of open-source Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to build...
Philippines finished second in the region in cleaning up corporate use of illegal software, according to BSA The Software Alliance. A BSA report cited Philippine corporations for responding positively to its recent campaign to use legal software. At the halfway point...
A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate. Many organisations are migrating applications back from the public cloud to on-premise datacentres, a study from Vanson Bourne for...
Renovate’s current commercial offerings will be available for free under the name WhiteSource Renovate. WhiteSource Renovate will be integrated into the WhiteSource product portfolio Open source security and license compliance management company, WhiteSource has...
For many organisations the compute infrastructure can be complicated and inefficient. One of the main contributors to this complexity, and the leading factors toward inefficiency, is uncontrolled infrastructure spread. It’s hard to comprehend that all these devices...
Announcement: Livingstone Technologies agrees to acquire Cloud Optics as part of its continued investment in the Software Lifecycle Management Space London UK, October 31, 2019 – Livingstone Technologies supported by global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:...
More than half of corporations in the Philippines still use unlicensed software in their business operations. This is according to the latest BSA Global Software Survey in 2018, which noted that an estimated 64% of the country’s corporations use illegal software,...
“Shadow IT” remains one of the most hotly debated topics in technology. Is it okay for the business to directly consume technology services outside of Technology organization? The answer is nuanced. It can be good, it can be bad and it can be both, similar to how...
SoftwareONE is gearing up for an IPO, slated for the fourth quarter of 2019. On Monday the Bonn-based Microsoft partner announced plans to float on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich. The news comes less than a year after the global giant acquired Germany-based...
When was the last time you cleaned out and organized your closet? Did you find items you forgot you even owned? Things you gave up looking for and just ended up buying again? What about the items you no longer need but have resale value? A haphazard approach to what’s...
Microsoft has made a major Azure price policy change by adding a monthly payment option for reserved instances, reversing a previous policy of charging up-front for the service. It’s a significant change because Microsoft made reserved instances the cheapest way to...
How many endpoints or devices are on your network right now? First of all, are you confident that you actually know the answer to that question. Assuming you think you do, what are the odds that other teams or individuals in your organization will give me the exact...
IT Asset Management or ITAM is a set of practices that allows your organization to manage, control, and protect all IT assets across your estate. If you’re new to ITAM, or simply want to find out more about it, then my A-Z of ITAM below is designed to help you to...
Last week Arrow Electronics Inc. announced that it would be shutting the doors on its IT asset disposition service business leaving the industry dumbfounded and thousands of customers concerned with how to proceed with their day to day disposal requirements. ...
Australia has signed a whole-of-government cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. The volume-sourcing agreement will "ensure government agencies have ready access to the best pricing, terms and conditions," Stuart Robert, Australia's minister for government...
A new report from ProcureCon and Coupa has found that even though 83% of IT and Procurement teams do not have shared KPIs, collaboration between the two functions is improving due to the demands of ongoing digital transformation projects. The research has revealed...
Sourcing, Procurement, Finance, Vendor and Asset Management Strategies Did your last software negotiation or cloud deal achieve the right business outcomes? Are your sourcing and procurement processes evolving fast enough to increase agility? How quickly can you...
During the latest state legislative cycle — which is mostly wound down for this year — lawmakers considered nearly 20 bills centered around a concept known as the "right to repair." None of them actually passed, but the attempt in Minnesota got closer than most....
Groundbreaking cloud migration analytics platform speeds digital transformation “How can you get us to the cloud faster?” is the question every IT executive is asked in every meeting. Our acquisition of RISC Networks has made it a lot easier to answer. RISC Networks’...
The establishment of local data centres by large global cloud providers has opened up possibilities to many South African businesses. However, moving into the cloud can create some complexities, specifically around software licensing. As you move into the cloud, the...
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