Failure to Automate Licensing & Entitlement Management is Missed Opportunity for Software Vendors, According to New Flexera Software/IDC Report

Report reveals ISV’s failure to implement licensing & entitlement management technology reduces virtualisation revenues, go-to-market effectiveness, and quote to cash efficiencyMaidenhead, UK – March 4, 2014 – Despite the massive growth and evolution of the enterprise software industry, independent software vendors (ISVs) have largely failed to implement automated software licensing and entitlement management systems across…

Gartner Recognises i4C Analytics as a Significant Vendor in its Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms Report

i4C Analytics is one of only four European vendors to be included within the Gartner reportLONDON, UK, 3 March, 2014 – i4C Analytics, leading software vendor of advanced analytics, announced today that is has been included in Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms report.i4C Analytics is a privately owned company which has experienced…

FSF joins forces with Software Freedom Law Center and Open Source Initiative to fight software patents in U.S. Supreme Court

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, February 28, 2014 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) joined the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in filing a brief amici curiae in software patent case Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank before the United States Supreme Court yesterday. Source: Free Software

Are Your Servers Pets or Cattle?

Yesterday I attended a talk by Randy Bias of Cloudscaling. The talk was called “Pets vs. Cattle: The Elastic Cloud.” I thought Randy’s perspective on infrastructure and system administration is really interesting, so I’m going to explain some of the key points that he shared with us yesterday… Under the old-fashioned “enterprise computing” infrastructure model,…

CloudSigma Partners with CompatibleOne to Allow for a Unified View of Computing Environments Across Locations

Partnership Further Validates CloudSigma’s Commitment to Advancing Open, Flexible Cloud Environments Zurich, Switzerland – February 27, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it is partnering with CompatibleOne, an open source, cloud-aware software platform that enables organizations to operate as a Cloud Services Brokerage. Through the…

Be Part of the Cloud-Enabled Infrastructure Evolution or Lose Your Competitive Edge, Telstra Global Tells Enterprises

26 February 2014, LONDON: Speaking at Cloud Expo Europe in London, Nathan Bell, Director of Marketing, Products and Pricing at Telstra Global, told the packed conference that having cloud-enabled managed hosting will eliminate many of the overheads associated with traditional ICT, making it a crucial investment for any enterprise which hopes to succeed in the…

Perforce Announces First UK Sales Partner – SDC Systems

New partnership helps businesses innovate and release new products fasterWokingham, UK, February 26, 2014 — Perforce Software today announced a partnership with UK-based SDC Systems Ltd to provide Perforce’s complete enterprise version management portfolio to businesses across the UK and Ireland.”We were receiving more and more requests from customers looking for code and collaboration tools…