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Reports from both The Independent and The Register have been discussing the latest large scale phishing scam to hit users of Google, and specifically anyone with a Gmail account. The Register has recommended: “If you get an email today sharing a Google Docs file with you, don’t click it – you may accidentally hand over your Gmail...

If you weren’t aware, end users customers as part of an Office 365 adoption have a limited time to apply new updates which can cause integration and operational issues if new releases don’t work with customer’s legacy systems. The reasons for this are based all around user experience and newer updates and releases will contain...

As we have seen with other separations, such as with Symantec and Veritas, Intel has now separated McAfee into its own entity.  They have retained a 49% stake with the rest of the investment settled by asset management group TPG after Intel’s initial acquisition in 2011. The new structure will appoint TPG’s Bryan Taylor as...

Firstly, let’s differentiate between software licence management and software asset management to frame the story: Software licence management is where licences are procured, applications are deployed, maintenance on licences are paid (or not) and eventually the licensing is replaced, retired or disposed Software asset management is where the process, people and technology is in place...

In December 2016, Microsoft released a new Premium Assurance product, targeted at Enterprise customers who have a business need to continue utilising older versions of Windows Server and SQL Server. Premium assurance is an optional uplift to the pre-existing Software Assurance package, and extends the support timeframe of the product by 6 years, as long...

As has been widely reported, Amazon Web Services suffered a fairly significant outage in their ‘US-EAST-1’ region which had an impact on 33 of their services and caused issues to a number of websites and cloud based services such as Netflix. “We’ve identified the issue as high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is...

As has been discussed over the past few months, we have seen a fairly consistent approach to software price rises, the main ones are contained in the table below: Vendor Increase Microsoft 13% (28% on online services) Symantec 20% (effective 1st April) Veeam 15% Vmware 15% IBM 7% AutoDesk Successive rises totalling 35% by 2019...

Autodesk on path to Subscription-Only Company In a move similar to Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription-only model switch in 2013, Autodesk has recently contacted customers defining their new company strategy. “We believe that subscribing is the best way for you to get the value from our tools and technologies – and will fundamentally change how we...

Autodesk’s Fusion 360 is the first 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool that brings together all the tools and collaboration capabilities needed to for an entire product development process into a single cloud-based platform. It provides a complete spectrum of design capabilities, including freeform modelling, 3D animation and rendering as well as 2D drawing capability...

Most customers that run IBM software may be aware of the licensing concession that IBM call ‘sub-capacity’ and from a high level the definitions are as follows: Full capacity: All physical infrastructure that has IBM deployed on will need licensing to the appropriate values based on the processor value unit calculations. Sub capacity: All virtual...

Open Source is free, right? Open source software has long been integrated into IT across the world – the click through licence agreements that we all scroll and agree to when downloading and installing applications such as Apple iTunes essentially contain the elements of open source within this. But now, organisations across the world (and...

Oracle can often be the greatest line item in an organisation’s IT budget, this is because of the years it has delivered very high end, high value solutions to the enterprise space.  Numerous critical business systems that are at the heart of the engine of the organisation often are run on Oracle. As with most...