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Global Pharma Company saves over $18M

January 12, 2022July 21, 2022 Shawn DonohueCase Study

Miro’s expert analysis resulted in a singular Enterprise Agreement for the company with the appropriate licensing at a greatly discounted price.

Large Federal Agency Sees Audit Findings Reduced 97% Saving $243,000,000

January 12, 2022July 21, 2022 Shawn DonohueCase Study

The auditor came back with a finding that the agency was $254,000,000 out of compliance. Miro set to work analyzing the auditor’s findings, and was able to discover multiple errors, omissions, and incorrect licensing calculations that the auditor had made.

Microsoft Azure Integration Services

December 20, 2021March 30, 2022 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Azure

By now, the ideas of virtualization, the cloud, and connected applications are mature. While the providers of these solutions try to get you to come to them, there is something holding this endeavor back. Perhaps, it’s security. And we’ve covered that. To recap, many cloud-based services are even more secure than your own set up. They must be. Because beyond the financial harm that could come their way, there is ever present risk to their reputation should their services be […]

Large Publisher Saves $800k on Licensing

December 14, 2021July 21, 2022 Shawn DonohueCase Study

Instead of spending $1M to purchase all new licenses, Miro helped the client use a different configuration that allowed them to use new and existing licenses. They ultimately saved $800k.

How Supply Chain Shortages May Affect Software Licensing and Put You at Risk

December 8, 2021July 21, 2022 Tim HegedusOracle, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Linux, Oracle Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM), Virtualization, VMware

One of Miro’s clients recently asked us to review a purchasing option they were given by their hardware vendor. Miro was recently asked by one of our clients to look at a deal their hardware vendor was offering. The client wanted to buy 8 core servers, but do to supply chain issues, the hardware vendor didn’t have any to sell. Instead, the vendor offered to sell the client 16 core bare metal servers for the same price of the smaller […]

Non-Microsoft Support of Microsoft Products

November 10, 2021March 30, 2022 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Unified Support

While not naming names, it is important to understand how non-Microsoft product support works. Non-Microsoft support can be reactive. That is, if all is going well, no one from the non-Microsoft support will reach out. Non-Microsoft support doesn’t include all products. For example, during our analysis, Miro identified an offering that supported only Azure, Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, and Teams. Or, in other words, subscriptions. But what happens when the deployments on-premise or in a hybrid environment go awry? There […]

Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server will become subscription licenses after Version 2019

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Windows

Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server will become subscription licenses after Version 2019. That announcement was made by Microsoft last year, with the timeframe of announcing the details after Windows Server 2022 was released. Windows Server 2022 was released on September 6, 2021, but, as of this writing, details remain undisclosed. What we do know is this: The next version of Exchange Server will support in-place upgrades from Exchange Server 2019 for a period of approximately two […]

Microsoft Price Increase for Microsoft 365

October 13, 2021March 30, 2022 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft 365

Since 2011, Microsoft’s pricing for business subscriptions to its line of Microsoft 365 products has been stable. But effective March 1, 2022, that ends. Because effective then, Microsoft is raising its monthly prices: Product Cost Per User per Month Current Planned Microsoft 365 Business Basic $5 $6 Microsoft 365 Business Premium $20 $22 Microsoft 365 E3 $32 $36 Office 365 E1 $8 $10 Office 365 E3 $20 $23 Office 365 E5 $35 $38 One thing that Microsoft is not […]

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