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Developing world fuels rise in software piracy, claims BSA

Four out of every ten programs used in the world are pirated or unlicensed, a loss of revenue to the software industry of $63.4 billion (£39.5 billion) a year, the Business Software Alliance?s (BSA) latest annual study has calculated.
IBM pushes 'affordable' Linux servers for virtualisation and Big Data analysis

IBM has announced new "affordable" Linux servers as the company tries to push its new category of preconfigured servers for virtualisation and Big Data to midmarket and enterprise customers.
Most companies over-spending on software licences

Most businesses in the UK are over-spending on software licences, because they do not keep accurate records of the software they have deployed, according to software asset management firm License Dashboard.
Cloud Industry Forum blames FUD for security concerns

Security is still the top concern for organisations looking to migrate to a cloud service model, with privacy following close behind, according to the latest research from the Cloud Industry Forum.
Dell unveils new Fluid Data storage products

Dell is bulking out its storage portfolio under the Fluid Data architecture umbrella, with the announcement of four new products building on its acquisitions of Ocarina, Compellent and EqualLogic.
Apple loses bid to block Mac OS X secrets

Not really secret, says U.S. judge, in latest ruling of long-running Psystar lawsuit
Startup Embrane unveils Helios networking virtualisation product

Software-defined networking startup Embrane this week came out of stealth mode to unveil its product and strategy for virtualising network services.
Windows 8 to run from USB thumb drive

Windows 8 will include a new feature that lets IT administrators provide workers with a portable Windows environment on a USB thumb drive.
Quantum launches enterprise data deduplication

Quantum today announced a deduplication appliance for enterprise class data centres that it says is faster than EMC's Data Domain box for disk-to-disk backup.
Zend offers PHP applications on subscription model

The new subscription-based model can help users who need more flexible application infrastructures

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The next frontier in virtualisation

Desktop virtualisation is becoming increasingly attractive to enterprises, particularly mid-sized businesses that have achieved significant data centre efficiency improvements through server virtualisation.
Hardware commoditisation turns intelligent device manufacturing into a software business

As the device market becomes increasingly commoditised, intelligent device manufacturers face challenges from multiple fronts including increased competition, growing demand for differentiated functionality, the need to respond faster to changing market conditions, and the business imperative to reduce manufacturing costs by decreasing the number of unique physical devices produced.
What next for Novell?

In an era of technology consolidation, the questions raised by Novell's sale to Attachmate for $2.2 billion ought to be a familiar: Users can only wonder what may happen to Novell's deep and extensive enterprise product lines.
Optical drives: will they disappear like the floppy disk?

Technology is ever changing. What was ubiquitous one day can be archaic the next. Cassette drives no longer run software. We don't transfer files on a floppy disk, either 5.25" or 3.5". And today, a compelling case can be made that the days of the optical disk drive may be numbered.
Virtualised software: Confusion over licences

When Dataprise, an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualisation project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualisation's dirty little secret: No one - including vendors - seems to know how to licence the software.
Linux Foundation launches open source licence compliance programme

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organisation dedicated to supporting Linux, announced on 10 August at LinuxCon the launch of the Open Compliance Program. What is that you ask? It's a comprehensive initiative to help companies and developers comply with open source licences.
The seven deadly myths about virtualisation

Anyone looking at the technical press or listening to analysts might think that an organisation need only go down a virtualisation path to reach a form of network of IT nirvana but the truth is that not everything the vendors will tell you will be true - it's time to separate the myth from reality.
Software-as-a-service now on menu of large companies

Although some would trace back the roots of software as a service to mainframe timesharing, what we would now call SaaS, or on-demand computing, is really experiencing its second coming.
Supercomputers bulk up on power while shedding price pounds

High-performance systems are getting larger and larger. But lower costs are broadening their appeal within IT.
VMware's complaints leave a sour taste

VMware's white paper complaining about Microsoft's new licensing conditions will gladden the hearts of Microsoft-haters everywhere. But it's probably not the right thing to have done.

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Getting a head start in Software Asset Management

For the majority of organisations, software represents one of their largest spends each year ? whether it is buying new licenses, upgrading applications, paying for support and maintenance or covering the labor cost associated with maintaining availability and productivity. In fact, research from McKinsey suggests that in 2010, software will account for 35 percent of all IT spend.
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Saas counterprogramming

This paper includes a brief history of software licensing, an analysis of the driving forces behind the growth of SaaS, and a discussion with examples of how creative licensing can protect traditional ISV?s revenue without requiring the launch of their own SaaS platform.
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Software licensing in virtual environments

Virtualisation has numerous IT infrastructure benefits but it can be a concern for software publishers.
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Case Study: Intel

How Intel reduces software rework and mitigates business risk by using Black Duck? Protex to ensure that open source, 3rd party and internal software usage strictly adhere to Intel?s software licensing policies.
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From Open View to Open Source

Many Global 2000 firms now pay licence costs for IT management software that reach seven figures. Deployment and system administration of these proprietary systems is more expensive than that, typically costing five to eight times the initial software licensing fee.
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