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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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The Personal and Social Implications of the End User License Agreement

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As in-house counsel, I often read and write online licensing agreements for software. These agreements go by a variety of names, such as Terms of Service (ToS) or End User License Agreements (EULAs). It would take a significant amount of time to read every one of the agreements you encounter.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO

While many organizations are already implementing RPA, few are doing it at scale, and most haven’t yet fully embraced the more advanced “intelligent” automation opportunities via artificial intelligence and machine learning that can unlock true end-to-end automation. There are several ways to tackle this problem.

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SAP prepares to add Joule generative AI copilot across its apps

CIO

By year-end, users of a couple of SAP applications should have the option to ask generative AI copilot, Joule, to help with their work — and the company plans to roll the feature out across all its applications one by one in the years to come. ServiceNow, the last to announce, will likely be the first to deliver.

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Whether your technology is new or old, lifecycle management is key

CIO

Security patches stop at least six months before an asset reaches its end of life. This is where software-driven infrastructure plays a key role because it enables the scalability, performance and resilience you need to support secure, high-quality user and customer experiences. The same principle applies to infrastructure.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. We implement automation solutions to generate recommendations to the development teams, who are our users, and we implement savings plans for most accounts — especially for the hyperscalers,” he says. Then there’s housekeeping.

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Best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO

SASE quickly went from concept to reality as organizations worked to support this massive shift in how they did business with the need to protect users and data on-premises, at the edge, and in the cloud. Not only would this option be expensive, it also would strain IT teams, upset users, and leave networks exposed.

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