![]() ![]() "I think we’re going to see a grace period here. ![]() "But in six months or whenever this is over, you need to know what you've done." Security is one thing, but in the midst of a global pandemic, does anyone care about licensing? "You're not going to get audited right now," Gibbons told The Reg. "What we've got is a lot of customers, especially regulated and institutional customers, who either for regulatory or cost reasons don't want to go into the cloud and subscriptions, they want to sit on-premises with perpetual product, and they don't have a good story of how to help their employees go remote today." Crisis measures You have to put all three of them together. ![]() And it's perpetual licensing vs subscription licensing. He told us that Microsoft is trying to move to the cloud model, but "a lot of customers are stagnating they don't want to pay for the subscription. Wes Miller, is a research analyst and licensing specialist at Directions on Microsoft, based in Kirkland near Seattle. Customers who license applications like Windows and Office on a per-user subscription are much better placed than those with perpetual per-device licenses. The licensing model for these two types of environment is different, with the traditional environment generally being more complex. The problem here is a fundamental one, which is that companies including Microsoft are in a hybrid world, part based on cloud concepts where everything is on the internet and easily accessed from all kinds of devices, and part based on traditional business networks with servers, locally installed software and desktop PCs. Rich Gibbons, a licensing trainer at IT Asset Management (ITAM), noted that Citrix and/or Remote Desktop Services are "the easiest way to quickly become non-compliant with a LOT of vendors." Clash of cloud cultures In addition, some vendors have curious rules about remote access to their applications that incur additional fees. Just the thing for a pandemic: an extra fee to have your users work remotely ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |