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IBM ELAs

April 5, 2016January 3, 2017 Sharon TrembleyIBM

If you’re heavily using IBM in your environment and that’s your main line of business software and you plan to continue with that investment, we recommend taking advantage of IBM ELAs as they contain many favorable options such as: Enterprise License, more fondly known as ‘All you can eat’ – we have seen ELAs for a limited software product that you can download and install as much as you want and then at the end of the ELA, you report […]

Is ILMT implementation a catalyst for an IBM license review?

March 22, 2016January 3, 2017 Sharon TrembleyIBM

First, let’s define ILMT. ILMT is short for IBM License Metric Tool that helps organizations to track and maintain PVU deployed software for full and sub-capacity environments. Secondly and a very important point, any software customer of IBM’s under the Passport Advantage Agreement is eligible for a license review, or in other words, an audit. IBM audits customers regardless of their ILMT use or non-use including the following scenarios: 1 – An enterprise that claims they have never heard […]

Short-Sighted to Call IBM and Its Employees Obsolete

March 10, 2016January 3, 2017 Sharon TrembleyIBM

Because I still bleed blue as a former IBMer, articles were emailed to me regarding this current round of resource actions. These layoffs do not penalize poor performers because recipients of a 1 PBC (gold star employees) are part of the action; also the internal advocates who publicly blog about IBM’s products or run the official IBM wikis to deep dive into the beauty of IBM’s products are also released into the wild. One article in particular by Dana Blankenhorn […]

IBM licensing and eligibility for sub-capacity licensing

January 26, 2015January 3, 2017 Sharon TrembleyIBM

IBM is a leading expert with partitioning and server virtualization technologies. They recognize non-IBM technology also, like VMWare, as a way to meet the demand for flexibility. They introduced subcapacity licensing in 2005 as a tool to assist customers in maintaining compliance in a dynamic environment

PVU licensing for DR with IBM DB2

January 22, 2015 Sharon TrembleyIBMLeave a Comment

Some vendors and products need fully licensed Disaster Recovery. Not so with PVU licensing for IBM’s DB2. I’ll explain, but first let me explain IBM-speak regarding DR servers. The IBM Software Group describes servers as Hot, Warm, and Cold, and those terms have been adopted where DB2 is installed.

IBM audits: complicated and getting nasty

October 22, 2014 Sharon TrembleyCompliance, IBM, IT Asset Management, Software auditLeave a Comment

IBM audits are never welcome, but they are increasingly becoming part of the norm. Why? IBM has targeted software to comprise 50% of its total revenue by 2015– this growth is not from SoftLayer or Watson’s cognitive computing alone.

ILMT – IBM Licensing Metric Tool

July 29, 2014July 1, 2014 Sharon TrembleyIBM, software asset management, software licenseLeave a Comment

To license IBM software by subcapacity, the IBM subcapacity licensing terms under Passport Advantage require customers to install and run ILMT (IBM Licensing Metric Tool).

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