The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KACE, the leading systems management appliance company, today announced the results of a new study that revealed nearly two-thirds of IT executives and managers ...

You don’t have to be pirating software to get in trouble during a compliance audit. “Where companies get ensnared is in the deployment phase. It’s not that they are trying to get away without paying, ...

LicenseFortress®, the leading independent software licensing advisory firm, is warning organizations about the accelerating rise of what it calls Ambush Audits™—vendor-initiated information-gathering ...

Software licensing compliance has become a costly burden for enterprises, with more than a quarter of organizations now spending over $500,000 annually to resolve licensing non-compliance issues, ...

IT would be so much easier if it weren’t for end users. They don’t read the manuals, they install applications with carefree abandon, they ignore security vulnerabilities – because that’s IT’s job, ...

Microsoft is the one software vendor that's most likely to audit companies on their software licensing compliance, according to an industry-sponsored survey. The report, "2012 Key Trends in Software ...

That ticking sound you hear is the time bomb waiting to go off in your company's IT organization, where more likely than not your company is at risk of failing a software audit. According to a new ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

The brand-new CIO of a large financial services organization had been on the job less than a week when a major software vendor handed him a bill for unauthorized usage to the tune of $1 million. By ...

Editor’s note: Heather Meeker is a shareholder and chair of the IP/IT Licensing and Transactions Group in the international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, and a leading authority on open-source ...

A new study, by KACE, a systems management appliance company, revealed that nearly two- thirds of IT executives and managers believe their companies have not taken appropriate steps to ensure ...