Here is an interesting news item – Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, specifically designed for mobile devices. They have also licensed Adobe Reader LE Software for viewing web content and email attachments. For those of you following the company’s plans – they had announced earlier this month that they would be releasing a rival to the Adobe product. Interesting turn of events. What does this mean in terms of licensing? Even your mobile phones can play a part in […]
Miro Consulting, leading global provider of software consulting and asset management services, today announced that it has named Alan Marc Smith and Brian Strosser as new members of its non-executive Board. For more than two decades, Miro has serviced hundreds of clients, including many government enterprises, overseeing more than $1 billion in software licensing. Clients have ranged from long-standing small-to-medium size enterprises to both the Fortune 100 and cabinet-level federal agencies. “We’re thrilled to add Brian and Alan to our […]
Capabilities Statement Miro is a leading global provider of software asset management services, specializing in license management, audit defense, negotiation tactics, support management, and cloud services for governmental and commercial markets. If you'd like to speak with us regarding a project or contract, please contact us here. You can download a PDF version of this page here. Our Services IT Asset Management Software License Reviews Software Audit Defense Cost Containment Options Contract Negotiation Support Subscription Reviews Cloud Licensing Analysis Managed [...]
Miro Consulting marks its 20th anniversary this year and is celebrating by launching a new Managed Services for Oracle Licensing service. Miro is a leading global provider of software asset management services, specializing in license management, audit advisory, negotiation tactics, support management, and cloud services. We help our clients maximize ROI on their software license investments, stay in compliance, and minimize the impact of audits. Miro’s performance guarantee promises that our long-tenured, diverse, and passionate team of expert analysts provides insightful […]
Oracle announced a High Availability option for use with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) beginning with version 19c. So far, as of Release Update 19.7, Oracle has included these operating systems: Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. More are planned in the future. Oracle customers can still use the maximum supported 16 CPU threads per instance during normal operations as well as Failover. Rather than using RAC as before, RACless version 19 SE2 customers can use free of charge storage […]
What Makes Us Different Performance Guarantee Miro’s no risk performance guarantee is that the amount of cost savings we uncover will be more than our fees. No other software licensing organization can make that claim. Proactive Approach We minimize risk by reviewing licensing compliance and addressing issues before an audit, unlike competitors who advise a high-risk reactionary approach of waiting for final audit results. Oracle Partner Program Our membership allows our fully independent company to give you the opportunity to [...]
Active Data Guard can help maximize efficiencies in using your Oracle licenses If your organization has replicas of various databases and is interested in identifying ways to reduce its Oracle licensing requirements and increase performance, it can take advantage of the features of Oracle Active Data Guard. It’s an option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (since version 11g). The Active Data Guard program should not be confused with the (for-free, non-licensable feature) Data Guard functionality that was part of the […]
For large companies that utilize Oracle products, one of the main goals often remains sustaining both manageability and cost. In order to do so, Oracle provides a number of different ways in which to license their products. A range of factors influences which particular licensing model makes the most sense for a given product. What type of environment will this product be used in, such as production, pre-production, or development? Is the user base expanding, contracting or remaining the same? […]
