SAM and Licensing

The purpose of this blog is to share the new approach to learning and understanding the software licensing rules around top publishers like Microsoft, Adobe,Autodesk, IBM, Oracle etc. As software licensing continues to become more flexible, it also becomes more complex so, our aim is to surface useful information around software licensing in this blog. Some of the information this blog contains may be taken from other public forums/ webinars/seminars and conferences.

Wednesday, 12 February 2020

IBM new announcement for retired OS ( Windows 7/ Windows Server 2008/ 2008 R2

IBM license change which may impact IBM license positioning.

In order to remain eligible for sub-capacity licensing for IBM software, deployed on following operating systems:

Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7

You should update your operating system within the next 180 days to one of the supported operating systems as per IBM’s policy. This since the above listed operating systems have reached End of Support/End of Life on January 14th, 2020

Below is IBM announcement:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1079427

Azure Hybrid Benefit

licensing on cost optimization Tip: Azure hybrid benefit 1- Windows Data center edition( 2 proc or 16 core) : you are allowed to run up-to 2 vms & up-to 16 cores ( vm can run in azure as well as in on-prem) 2- Windows Standard edition ( 2 proc or 16 core) : you are allowed to run up-to 2 vm & up-to 16 cores ( vm can run in either azure or in on-prem)