What Are The Chances of an Audit by IBM?
What Are The Chances of an Audit by IBM?
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IBM Audits & Licensing Live Q&A
Sign up for our next webinar on IBM audits and licensing! Miro’s IBM expert and senior analyst, Sharon Trembley, will answer audience submitted questions on IBM audits, IBM license compliance and IBM cost containment strategies. Topics will range from triggers for an IBM audit, tokenization licensing to how to use ILMT effectively and efficiently.
What’s up at IBM?
By 2015, 50% of IBM’s revenue is expected to come from software. You may not have realized it, but consider all that’s new – cloud, big data, and cognitive computing. IBM has also formed and plans to invest $1 billion in the Watson Business Group to research and deliver cognitive applications and services to market via cloud. What will you do with Watson?
IBM: “Pure & Simple”
Following IBM’s 2013 earnings miss last week, IBM sold the x86 server line to Lenovo. Basically the servers we see are mostly Power servers as opposed to IBM boxes.
IBM Gets Into the Cloud Game
IBM agreed to purchase SoftLayer Technologies this week, in order to strengthen their position in the cloud computing market.
Similarities between Oracle and IBM CPU-based licensing
Is it still the same after Oracle has purchased Sun? One of the first things I noticed after the similarity between IBM and Oracle’s CPU-based software licensing – both base the licensing on cores – I noticed Oracle skews their software core factor table to favor Sun hardware. IBM doesn’t reduce the software licensing if a client runs their software on an IBM box.
IBM Joins BSA
IBM is the among the 40 software vendors to be a part of the Business Software Alliance (BSA)
IBM Power6 – No more discounting with Oracle products
The latest Oracle processor core scaling factor table now rates an IBM Power6 processor at a scaling factor of 1.0 per core, which means no more 25 per cent discount on Power6 processor cores when it comes to Oracle products. The Power6 processor, launched initially in the summer of 2007, is a dual-core chip and design, just like its predecessors the Power5 and the Power5+ kicker. But the Power6 chip is said to have roughly twice the performance vis-à-vis the […]