Tag: Flexera News

Beware of SAP Indirect Access

Lawsuits between large software vendors and their customers often make the news. In 2015, Adobe took legal action against fashion apparel giant Forever 21 over alleged use of pirated software. And in …

February 28, 2017 Flexera

What resources do you need to manage your SAM program?

The responsibilities for managing a Software Asset Management (SAM) program can vary depending on the organization and there is no easy formula to determine staffing levels required. There is no “one …

February 15, 2017 Adam Galbreath

Windows 10 Compatibility and Managing Risk

Recently, Microsoft held a Windows Community call for partners that featured Chris Jackson, The App Compat Guy. During the presentation Chris provided insights and best practices for testing Windows …

February 14, 2017 Flexera

Gartner Report: Cut Software Spending Safely with Software Asset Management (SAM)

A few months ago, Gartner published this report: Cut Software Spending Safely with SAM Organizations can cut spending for software licenses by as much as 30% by implementing the three software license…

December 20, 2016 Flexera

RightScale Product Updates: Support for AWS R4 and Expanded T2 Instance Types, Increased SSD Disk Allotment for Google Cloud Instances, Enhanced Monitoring Graphs and More

Our December product updates include support for AWS R4 and expanded T2 instance types, increased SSD disk allotment for Google Cloud instances, improved monitoring graphs, and more. Happy Holidays fr…

December 8, 2016 Ryan O'Leary

Track These Software Asset Management Program Metrics for Success

(Image source: Spectrum Scoreboards) Nobody plays a sport and doesn’t keep score. But plenty of organizations implement a software asset management and license optimization program without any …

November 11, 2016 Chris Grinton

RightScale Product Updates: Support for AWS P2 Instances in Cloud Analytics Plus New AWS Ohio and Seoul Regions, Azure Storage Account Tag Syncing, and More

The latest RightScale product updates include the ability for you to manage and optimize your cloud costs on the new AWS P2 instances with Cloud Analytics as well manage deployments in the new AWS reg…

November 10, 2016 Ryan O'Leary

Recommended Hardware Asset Management Practices to Support SAM

To be effective in managing and optimizing software licenses, Software Asset Managers require accurate information about the state of hardware assets within their organization. A Software Asset Manage…

November 3, 2016 Peter Osang

RightScale Product Updates: AWS X1 Instance Support, Azure Resource Manager Enhancements, CloudApps Development Scheduling and More

Although summer didn’t slow us down where features development was concerned, the arrival of fall has given us a renewed focus on delivering the functionality you’ve been asking for. Read on for more …

October 5, 2016 Ryan O'Leary

RightScale Product Updates: New RightScale Features: Support for Azure Premium Storage, ARM volumes in Self-Service, and ServiceNow Helsinki

Multi-Cloud Support Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Volumes in Self-Service: You can now incorporate ARM volumes in your application definitions in Cloud Applications Templates (CATs) using the ‘v…

September 2, 2016 Ryan O'Leary