ITAM has always been an integral part of most company’s strategic planning and decision making because of two incredibly powerful objectives – managing cost and managing risk and doing so has never been easy, but as new technologies and more complex software licensing models have emerged and even become common place, managing your IT assets has become a lot more confusing and difficult. One incredibly complex way that ITAM has evolved is how software assets are hosted and how those license types can differ from standard on-premises licenses. Software licenses in cloud environments can be confusing, often leading to poor…
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What is Cloud License Management?
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The many nuances of managing cloud licenses: A framework for getting clarity
Over the last few months, I’ve been chatting with customers about managing cloud licenses and one observation from these conversations is that ‘managing cloud software’ can mean different things to different people. I believe this is due to the changing roles and responsibilities in organizations regarding managing IT assets and related costs, driven by the shift in where workloads are hosted and how applications are purchased. The risk of this confusion is that there’s no clarity of what is needed to manage these environments, who is responsible, and which tools are best suited for enabling this visibility. To manage software…
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New feature: AI purchase data and entitlement ingestion
Companies everywhere are turning their attention to incorporating AI into their businesses. Unfortunately, a lot of this AI implementation has been lackluster at best, and hit bottom lines with extreme expenses at worst. That’s because the implementation of these AI tools has been a hammer looking for a nail. That is to say, organizations have a solution ready in AI; they just haven’t pinpointed the problem that it solves. Flexera has taken a slower, more methodical approach to pursuing AI capabilities: looking first at the problem that AI can help solve and then investing our time and energy into solving…
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IBM LinuxONE 5 and Flexera: Driving revolutionary AI, robust security and sustainable IT management
In an era defined by rapid technological advancement, enterprises require powerful, secure and environmentally responsible solutions capable of handling intensive AI workloads. IBM LinuxONE 5 stands at the forefront of this mission transforming how businesses optimize IT operations, secure critical infrastructure and pursue sustainability objectives. Our Kubernetes/OpenShift inventory agent support is readily available for IBM zSystems z/VM and KVM virtualization and we’re also proud to offer comprehensive software asset management support for IBM’s new LinuxOne 5 servers, ensuring that no matter how robust and complicated your environment is, Flexera One will be the platform to help ensure you maintain license…
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