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In what could be viewed as a test case, a court has found in favour of SAP UK in relation to an indirect access case against the drinks supplier Diageo GB. If you don’t understand what indirect access is, you are probably not alone and this case could probably give you a view on this!...

There are now 25 new packs and per processor packs available for VMWware’s Blue Medora True Visibility. Adding the Blue Medora True Visibility Suite to VMware vRealize Operations enables customers to unite cloud and datacentre management, bringing together information from VMware-enabled agent-less management packs such as Amazon, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, and SAP. Blue...

The Cloud? Well, Mark Hurd the co-CEO of Oracle Corp says so and he’s hoping this means Oracle’s. According to the Wall Street Journal, he expects that 80% of corporate datacentres to disappear by 2025 as cloud services become the primary way that IT services are consumed. “The movement to the cloud “isn’t just about...

End-of-Life / End-of-Support Management The management of software throughout the lifecycle is now critical, especially with the significant rise of cyber security breaches.  When products go end-of-life and more prominently end-of-support, the security patching is vastly reduced, sometimes completely reduced and therefore puts you at risk. This regular monthly article will advise you on the...

Until now, Citrix has offered two types of software Maintenance: – Citrix Software Maintenance – Citrix Subscription Advantage (SA) Citrix SA gave you upgrade rights to future versions, with no support and Software Maintenance provided support. A customer typically bought both or just Software Assurance. After March 2017, Software Assurance will no longer be available...

IN THE NEWS: HPE and Red Hat Join Forces to Give Customers Greater Choice for NFV Deployments Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Red Hat announced they are working together to accelerate the deployment of network functions virtualisation (NFV) solutions based on fully open, production-ready, standards-based infrastructures. Consistent with HPE’s multi-cloud, multi-stack strategy and broader open...

The office 2007 desktop suite and related server products leave the extended support phase of their life cycle in 2017.  Organisations that still have these software products deployed on-premise should migrate to later versions of the products, still within mainstream support or risk encountering incompatibility issues and security risks. The Office 2007 suite and the...

Adobe has been starting to communicate with its customers the planned price rises for its Creative Cloud suite of products.  Differing reaction has been reported across a number of sources (The Independent, The Register, CloudPro and DigitalArts) which do not provide a uniform price rise, but a more tailored increase based on usage and type....

Mountain View, CA – February 15, 2017 –Veritas Technologies today announced a technology alliance with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Veritas 360 Data Management capabilities to enterprises leveraging AWS infrastructure — accelerating migration to the cloud and improving the management of applications and data across hybrid cloud environments. The collaboration between the two companies...

Sophos announced it will pay US$100m to acquire US malware protection firm Invincea.  Invincea makes a line of signature-less endpoint procession technologies that rely on machine learning and behavioural monitoring to block malware. Sophos chief executive Kris Hagerman said Invincea’s machine learning-based threat detection technology would be rapidly integrated into its product line, representing a...

Effective February 6th, Microsoft have announced significant price reductions on certain products within their Azure Cloud platform. The reductions come in the wake of Microsoft’s recent price increases in the UK, and in many cases completely mitigate the price increase, or reduce it further still. Examples of the price changes can be seen in the...

As the world’s value-creation activities move from industrial manufacturing to software asset development, and use of open-source software becomes more prevalent, government IT personnel should look to the past to ensure their future. This means taking a close look at their software supply chains and the components they’re using to build applications. A major area...