Emerging trends in IT hardware could force software licensing costs up by more than 50 percent over the next year, unless businesses renegotiate existing contracts now, according to research company ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are trying again to pass a proposal meant to rein in the costs of the government’s software ...

Every day we hear how the network is changing. Virtualization, Cloud, Software-defined Networking, the Internet of Things — it’s clear big transformational change is happening. The technical aspects ...

Many organizations can cut spending on software by as much as 30 per cent with some basic software license optimization best practices. According to analyst Gartner, global software spending is set to ...

Software audits are on the rise—a fact well-documented by Gartner. Software giants have long recognized that audits are a way to generate additional revenue, and vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM ...

Hate reading software licenses? Not knowing the language might have something to do with it. Here’s a quick glossary No two licenses are the same. even licenses for the same application can vary ...

A Coalition for Fair Software Licensing lobbying group has launched, aiming to remedy "anticompetitive software licensing practices." The group, consisting of "more than a dozen companies," was ...

As the global economy teeters somewhere between stagnation and recession, many companies are placing a renewed focus on cost management. Tech leaders, who hold significant portfolios of assets and ...

Everybody does it. We may say that we only use the “customer’s paper” when contracting, but we know that is often not the case when entering into licenses for commercially available, off-the-shelf ...

The House passed a bipartisan proposal with new transparency requirements for government software spending on Wednesday. Dubbed the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets — ...

The Alviso company that's more of a verb than a business surprised many last week when it said it had added more than 250,000 subscribers in its second quarter. In the same quarter a year ago, the set ...