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VIRTUALISATION Software licensing: hints on staying legit
VIRTUALISATION Software licensing: hints on staying legit | Software licensing: hints on staying legit |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 25 August 2009 | |
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Parker's experience covers organisations of all sizes, across many industries and the public and private sectors. Over 95% of the reviews he has performed revealed licensing shortfalls. So what can you do to help ensure your house is in order if an auditor comes knocking on the door? The first step is to create and maintain an inventory of licences and installed software. For an organisation of any size and complexity (say 50+ PCs that aren't running a standard operating environment), that means using discovery and licence management tools. "That's really the foundation," says Parker. Smaller organisations will need to do the job manually, and in any case there's a need for a process to include any retail licences purchased by individual departments as well as those acquired centrally. Kindly step across to page 2 for Parker's second step. |
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