Transforming Your Datacenter: How Licensing Can Impact Strategy
SPLA is not going away. If you are a traditional hosting provider, you will have the option to host Microsoft software from your own datacenter environment. That will continue to [...]
Azure Reserved Instances and Microsoft’s Love for Software Assurance
Recently, Microsoft announced Azure RI’s are now available in CSP. Lots of talk about comparing it to AWS, the cost savings over traditional pricing models, and leveraging existing Windows Server [...]
End of SPLA? New Azure Options Affects Licensing
Last Thursday, Microsoft announced Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RI) will be available in the CSP program as well as Windows Server and SQL Server subscriptions. This is big news [...]
MSP Opinion: Why Companies Choose Microsoft’s Azure
“We assumed that everything was the same, i.e., it’s a virtual environment and we can deploy it as if it was sitting in the closet" Organizations worldwide are transforming the [...]
New Direct CSP Requirements
This is a follow up to the article titled “The QMTH Dilemma for Both Microsoft and CSP Providers” The new Direct CPS enrollment requirements take effect August 31, 2018. If [...]
How to Report SPLA Usage to be Compliant
The biggest benefit to SPLA is the month-month licensing rules. The biggest downfall to SPLA (and CSP for that matter) is its month-month licensing rules. What's a benefit to [...]
SPLA Provider Reacts to the New Microsoft Channel
Common CSP and SPLA Licensing Questions…Answered
SQL BI is included with SQL Enterprise. Is it available in SPLA if I license SQL Enterprise? SQL BI is a Software Assurance (SA) benefit for on premise deployments. [...]
Why you need a plan B, C, D, and E.
The title seems obvious, if you are an entrepreneur, you should always be thinking about what’s next. I read/follow Richard Branson, who wrote an article recently on focusing on the [...]