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Hyper-V, Microsoft,
Maybe, depending on your Microsoft licensing, contract timing and environment scope. Given VMware’s price hikes, it’s worth considering as long as Hyper-V fits your needs, and quick analysis makes it feasible. Most importantly, your IT team has to be willing to change and adopt new technology. Read the full answer
It depends on the results of a financial analysis and if your employees have the skillsets to make Hyper-V viable for at least part of your environment (e.g. non-production). Read the full answer
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s virtualization platform that allows you to create and run virtual machines (VMs)—software-based versions of physical computers. Read the full answer
Licensing, Oracle,
Remend does business differently because their focus from start to finish is how to reduce clients' long-standing expenses, including on premise annual software support. Read the full answer
Licensing, Oracle, SAM,
A CSI analysis from Remend helps your business create a statement of value, determine savings opportunities, contractual flexibility and the steps to realize savings with your Oracle contracts. Read the full answer
Licensing, Optimization, SAM,
Software asset management (SAM) is a business operations strategy that controls and optimizes the use of software licenses in an organization. Read the full answer
Copilot, Microsoft,
Adding Microsoft Copilot to your Enterprise Agreement (EA) to “pilot” or “test” will depend on your scenario, including discounts and other services you're getting in kind. You need to carefully look at how the addition of Copilot will affect your EA in the long-term. Read the full answer
Copilot, Licensing, Microsoft,
Organizations without EA contract renewals in 2024 have different opportunities and challenges. If Copilot was acquired through a supplemental customer price sheet (CPS) which became available in late 2023, the pricing may be set for the term in the future pricing table. In these cases, customers with a potentially large acquisition can either try to re-negotiate pricing or perhaps postpone purchases until the next contract renewal. Read the full answer
Microsoft is being “generous” by wrapping Copilot into Enterprise Agreement (EA) renewals. Customers with little to no interest are being incentivized to “test” the features of Copilot at little to no cost. Customers with high interest are incentivized to add several subscriptions to secure better contract discounting and obtain services for deploying and integrating AI-related services. This may seem like a win-win deal, but the devil is in the details. Read the full answer
Maybe – depending on your individual scenario Read the full answer
