The driving idea behind both moves is to help customer simplify what can be a daunting task – moving applications to multicloud environments. IBM is looking to make it easier for customers to move to multicloud environments by adding automation tools to its cloud services, and the company is extending its relationship with cloud migration … Read more
Microsoft has “adjusted” prices with Office 2019, making it more expensive to buy on-premise versions of its products. The upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2019 has triggered “price adjustments” across many of Microsoft’s on-premise and cloud products. The impact of these increases varies between commercial and public sector customers, depending on which software is being … Read more
Buying technology services for an enterprise is a big undertaking and an expensive one, so it can be smart to use yet another service – technology expense-management (TEM) – to help maintain control over what you spend and what you get. Technology expense-management (TEM) is a service that is of ever-increasing importance to enterprise buyers … Read more
It’s the end of the year and time to renew public cloud contracts. Here’s how to get the biggest discount from your public cloud provider. The last time you renewed or got a new contract in place with a big pubic cloud provider, how did your negotiations go? For most enterprises this past year, such … Read more
Sanjiv Gossain, Head of Cognizant Digital Business in Europe, discusses the impact software is having on businesses and why they need to give in to its influence. When Marc Andreesen wrote the now-famous piece “Why Software is Eating The World” in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, he provided some unique insight into the power … Read more
The October 2018 price hike for Microsoft Office 2019 will badly affect local governments, leading Socitm to urge Microsoft to reconsider. Local authorities face the prospect of paying more for their Microsoft software than they had anticipated, and have until December to sign up to the new pricing, or face a 4% hike. The price … Read more
After the initial rush to the cloud, many firms are discovering it’s not cheaper and are taking workloads back to their data centers, a Nutanix survey finds. A new survey by cloud software vendor Nutanix finds that most firms are embracing the hybrid model, but few have actually achieved it. And many are shifting their … Read more
Cisco secures SD-WAN software, bolsters cloud-based Office 365 application access, and offers DevNet SD-WAN development options. Looking to help customers batten down the edge, Cisco is marrying its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) software with security features while boosting support for cloud services. Many times SD-WAN customers have been forced to choose between adding more security to their SD-WAN at … Read more
Microsoft’s stumbling all over itself trying to get Win10 1809 released. Unless you need an updated Notepad, a clipboard that works almost as well as free add-ons, or a screenshooter that can’t even save in JPG format, wait for more shoes to drop. t’s been an interesting morning, in an ancient Chinese curse kind of … Read more
Red Hat’s new vice president and general manager of its RHEL Business Unit, Stefanie Chiras, enthusiastically embraces the growing importance of Linux. While you may not spend a lot of time thinking about this, the role Linux plays in the technology that we all use everyday is growing quite significantly. In an effort to more … Read more
