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Month: February 2017

Compliance Risk – Oracle alters license allocation rules for Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services Environments
Wayne FedericoUncategorized

Oracle has introduced new rules on how to apply on premise licensing for use in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services environments. The changes result in an effective doubling of requirements for most Azure and AWS environments, while keeping Oracle Cloud requirements the same. Compliance risk to current clients who use Oracle within AWS and Azure environments still remains unknown at the time of this writing, but expect this to definitely impact any future deployments of Oracle on Azure or […]

New Updated Rules Make Oracle Cloud Less Expensive than Amazon AWS
Shawn DonohueCloud, Oracle, Oracle database, Oracle license

On January 23, 2017, Oracle introduced significant updates to their “Licensing Oracle in a Cloud Environment” guidelines document. Miro has been reviewing the document to identify the key changes, and how they relate to current environments and decisions for future environment plans. As is typically the case with Oracle, the document does not express a clear view of the true comparative impact of the changes they made against the previous guidelines. The changes appear to favor the Oracle Cloud over […]

Adobe Has A New Way of Tracking Non-Licensed Software
adminUncategorized

Adobe’s new Genuine Software Integrity Service validates installed Adobe Software.  It automatically checks for counterfeit software, invalid licenses and alerts Adobe of fraudulent use. The process looks for illegitimate serial number and if it includes software hacks. Once verified, Adobe notifies the company/violator that their software is not genuine. Companies still should have a program in place to track the full lifecycle of their software assets, to have full control and understanding on: Software requests vs Actual software need Centralized […]

Warning: Your Software Asset Management (SAM) Tool is NOT Certified
Shawn DonohueCompliance, IBM, licensing, Microsoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Miro News

IT professionals must remember that a tool does not understand the rules Many software license management tools claim to be certified by Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and others, but none actually are. For example, Oracle’s LMS page does list a number of tools, but only as supplements, not as certified tools, and they often miss 90% of Oracle products. “Tools from the following vendors have been verified to provide the required data set to supplement a LMS engagement. The scope of […]

Microsoft Replaces CRM Online with Dynamics 365 and Increases Prices
adminMicrosoft

In October 2016, Microsoft announced that it was no longer going to sell the CRM Online suite.  Current users of the product will now be forced to buy Dynamics 365.  For some users this may amount to a small decrease in the price of the subscription, but for many it will be much more. CRM Online offered different per user, per month prices for different levels of functionality: Professional – $50 Basic – $23 Employee Self Service – $2 Now […]

Office 365 Price Tiers Provide Less Value Than Other Microsoft Product
adminMicrosoft

Price tiers for Office 365 represent only a 3% difference from the preceding level rather than the more traditional 7+% for other products. Both of these are reflective of cost and budgeting. For Windows Server / System Center, the cost of licensing larger servers (that is, with more cores per processor) will increase. Organizations may have opted – or are contemplating – these denser servers as a way to increase capacity and workload while constraining additional software license investment. For […]

Vendors Provide Trial Software Licenses for Clients to ‘Try Before They Buy’
Sharon TrembleyContract Negotiations, Cost Containment/Negotiation, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle

Utilizing those licenses in another manner could create a non-compliant situation for a client, even if the vendor has not clearly defined strict limitations regarding trial use. Something that is often misunderstood is testing a trial version of a product that is already owned and being used elsewhere in the environment. If it’s the same version as what’s in the production, there’s no need to try it out – it’s now test/dev. However if it’s a new version of the […]

Microsoft Moves to “Per Core” Licensing for Windows Server
adminMicrosoft, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft has (pretty predictably) moved to “Per Core” licensing for Windows Server, just like SQL Server before it. This is more to the trend of denser servers – that is, with more and more cores per server – and, possibly, in a nod to Azure. It’s been pretty well documented, but there are minimums: A minimum of 16 core licenses is required for each server. A minimum of 8 core licenses is required for each physical processor. And, like for […]

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