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Licensing stories - Page 5

The foundation of every business often lies in the official legal documents that allow it to be approved as a company. Among these documents are licences, which define the rights of a company around a range of products or services they can sell.

Licensing is often specific to every country, state and city. Licensing is necessary in order to regulate markets and meet demands. It is also an efficient way to control markets that include dangerous products such as alcohol or rifles selling.

In the tech space, licensing can spread across both hardware and software products.
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Canalys says SECaaS growing rapidly, while vendors struggle to keep up

Fri, 23rd Mar 2018
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Security-as-a-Service offerings surged in 2017 according to Canalys, but vendors like Symantec struggle to meet unpredictable investor expectations.
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BlackBerry aims to secure IoT devices

Thu, 8th Mar 2018
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BlackBerry inks a deal with Punkt Tronics AG to integrate its cybersecurity technology into IoT devices, aiming to secure home and enterprise networks.
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Huge tech leaders come together for open source licensing initiative

Fri, 1st Dec 2017
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Red Hat, Facebook, Google and IBM have come together to promote greater fairness and predictability in license enforcement.
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Interview: New NZ Cisco distributor as Cisco Spark kicks off locally

Mon, 4th Sep 2017
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A licensing agreement with Spark NZ means Cisco Spark can finally launch locally - with Spark subsidiary Telegistics the exclusive distributor.
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Don't boil the ocean: Taking the sting out of software license audits

Fri, 14th Jul 2017
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Software audits have become even more complicated as businesses now need to track software in complex environments, like the cloud.
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Ivanti acquires asset management company - ninth in five years

Thu, 13th Apr 2017
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Ivanti bolsters its asset management suite, seizing Concorde for its ninth takeover in a quest to simplify corporate IT complexity.
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Rhipe returns to profit as licensing revenue, SEA business grows

Tue, 21st Feb 2017
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Rhipe has seen its revenue climb 9%, with the distributor jumping into the black with a $15,000 profit for the six months.
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Ivanti is 'transforming the way we understand the data centre'

Mon, 13th Feb 2017
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The license optimiser helps asset managers understand even the most complicated server-based enterprise software.
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New distie partnership for Kemp opens 'exciting new markets'

Thu, 29th Sep 2016
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Kemp Technologies partners with rhipe to offer service providers access to its cloud services, delivering optimised application delivery in the cloud.
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Gartner opinion: “You need to fire your reseller”

Mon, 26th Sep 2016
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Gartner suggests ditching resellers who fail to clarify licensing changes, an essential service spotlighted at the Dallas ITFPAM Summit.
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Developing new business models for success in the IoT

Tue, 6th Sep 2016
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It only takes a few moments of reflection to realise that with the rise of IoT, business has adapted, developed new models, & they are capitalising.
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MUST READ: Exclusive Kiwi cloud channel report

Wed, 17th Aug 2016
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Dicker Data, the ICT distributor, claims 53% of resellers would change vendors if a subscription model wasn't offered.
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Cloud DC signs CSP distribution deal with Citrix

Tue, 9th Aug 2016
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Cloud DC has become a global distributor for CSP Citrix licensing, while putting its Cloud Workspace in front of 10,000 Citrix partners.
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ANSYS CFD and Microsoft Azure perform best HPC scalability in the cloud

Thu, 4th Aug 2016
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One of the most common request from our customers moving their HPC workloads to the cloud is to get the ISV licensing model adapted to the Cloud.
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Infor financials strong as software licensing & cloud lead the way

Thu, 30th Jun 2016
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Info's fourth quarter financial results show huge growth in software license fees and cloud subscription revenue.
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BSA Report: 61% of Asia Pacific region at risk by using unlicensed software

Thu, 26th May 2016
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BSA's 2016 Global Software report: the Asia-Pacific region has the highest rate of unlicensed software use, worth $19.1 billion in commercial value.
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Collaboration to enable on-demand, usage-based licensing in the cloud

Thu, 12th May 2016
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​Flexera Software recently announced they are collaborating with Microsoft Azure to enable Thinkbox Software to add more services.
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NZ Govt open licensing consultation goes off without a hitch

Tue, 3rd May 2016
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NZ's innovative online consultation on open source software propels transparent, hitch-free government licensing talks.
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StorageCraft offers up new socket-based licensing

Tue, 15th Mar 2016
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StorageCraft has added a new 'price friendly' socket-based licensing model for its ShadowProtect SPX backup and disaster recovery offering.
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Cloud First Licensing – boosting Microsoft's race to the cloud

Fri, 5th Feb 2016
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Microsoft's 'Cloud First Licensing' strategy accelerates, reshaping the tech giant's cloud race with key licensing updates.