Software licensing in data protection - what do you need to consider?
Silverstring Data Protection Show
English - September 04, 2018 23:00 - 11 minutes - 5.4 MBBusiness Technology data backup data recovery data protection disk backup tape backup draas baas Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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One of the more challenging subjects to cover without inducing insomnia in most listeners - software licensing. Many of our customers also find it frustrating to understand the intricacies of different models and how to ensure they're paying the right price, whilst ensuring their business is compliant with the vendor's rules.
Alistair Mackenzie joins Thomas Cowley for an initial discussion about IBM Spectrum Protect licensing - a solution that we know has at least 10 different ways of being licensed, as outlined in one of our blogs here:
https://www.silverstring.com/blog/10-ways-to-license-spectrum-protect-tsm