It’s confirmed. Broadcom is acquiring VMware. This is just the latest of many attempts at diversification by Broadcom by moving into the enterprise software space. VMware is one of the most widely adopted technologies used by organizations around the world. But what does the acquisition mean for VMware customers? And more importantly, what actions should you take to prepare in the coming months?  In plain terms, VMware customers should prepare for considerable change to their current vendor relationship.

This U.S. government contractor (alias: GovCon) develops solutions for defense, civil government, intelligence and cybersecurity customers. The company had a cloud-first initiative to migrate their Flexera on-premises solutions. By working closely with Flexera, GovCon was able to successfully migrate their Flexera on-premises instances to a private cloud.

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Discover how Flexera is partnering with ITAM Review’s LISA, the leader in licensing and IT asset management training, to offer on-demand and live training courses to help bolster your IT knowledge and achieve certifications. 

Let’s face it, no matter the vendors involved, IT asset management (ITAM) is complex, expensive and time-intensive for enterprises.

It’s no secret that momentum for cloud adoption is constantly increasing, and a well thought out migration plan is critical to realize long-term success. Cloud migration isn’t a simple task, and there are a few inherent challenges that need to be addressed.

To compete in today’s marketplace, organizations must have the cloud play a significant role in their strategy. Cloud adoption was already on the rise for quite a few years and has been accelerated by the pandemic, which has caused new needs in the cloud management market. Gartner recently released its 2022 Market Guide for Cloud Management Tooling to help organizations choose the right tools for their needs, and we’re pleased Flexera is one of its Representative Vendors.

A one-page overview of Flexera and how we help enterprises manage their complex hybrid ecosystems, plus a look at the organizations that rely on us.

We’re experiencing a technological revolution. Our almost exclusive dependency on the traditional desktop-installed application is becoming less and less common. Like nearly all organizations, it’s highly likely your users are now working with solutions that span on-premises, SaaS or a hybrid of the two. And without visibility and actionable insights into all three, you’re likely missing out on optimization opportunities.

To remain competitive in this evolving digital world, organizations must make strategic decisions about their cloud migration, cloud architecture, usage of public clouds, effective tooling and cloud cost management. Download the 2022 State of the Cloud infographic to discover the challenges and opportunities that the cloud provides.

Digital transformation has increased at a breakneck speed over the past few years. Along with that comes ever-changing dynamics for ITAM professionals as they try to keep up. This creates the need for ITAM experts to continually educate themselves on new products and changing license models from their biggest vendors. That’s why we’ve partnered up with ITAM Review’s LISA–the Licensing, ITAM and SAM Academy.

Your CIO asks, “Are we ready for our upcoming IBM renewal?” Can you answer confidently? Join Anglepoint and Flexera as we help answer the question and set you up for a successful vendor partnership.

Comprehensive monthly report based on data from Flexera’s Secunia Research team who produce valuable security advisories leveraged by users of Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Research and Software Vulnerability Manager solutions.

We know that software vulnerabilities remain one of the primary causes of external attacks. We also know that on average, vulnerabilities are exploited for the first time just days after they’re disclosed. You may be managing many third-party applications, so how can you make sure you can drive remediation and reduce the risk for all your software?

Learn how you can overcome these common challenges through true bottom-up discovery of your IT resources and mapping of crucial dependencies beyond traditional application dependency mapping.

You can’t manage—or defend—what you can’t see Enterprises aren’t strangers to cyber threats—but since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, more and more companies are seeking intelligence to shore up their defenses against growing threats. The Cyber Alert Level has been ranked Severe (Red) ever since the country’s military strike, and organizations like the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have called on companies, organizations and authorities to expand their IT security measures. Organizations can—and must—do more to protect their IT assets.

IBM Turbonomic integration with Flexera One’s IT Asset Management enables licensing policies to be factored into workload placement. Now you can streamline IT asset management and simultaneously optimize performance, compliance and costs with this new partnership.

The economic impact of the pandemic is forcing CFOs around the world to adjust spending within their organizations. Meanwhile, CIOs and IT leaders are turning over every rock to find ways to cut waste without impacting strategic initiatives. One IT cost saving strategy is to eliminate wasted spend on public cloud services. How much money does cloud computing save? Organizations waste an average of about 32 percent of their cloud spend.

Panasonic increases efficiencies and sees $100,000 potential Microsoft® license savings with Spend Optimizer

Increasingly complex tasks just became simpler with the announcement that Flexera One’s IT Asset Management solution is now an IBM-certified alternative to IBM’s License Metric Tool (ILMT). See how you can reduce your licensing costs across your entire portfolio.

Recently, Flexera and IBM announced an exciting and strategic partnership. I wanted to expand on what this partnership means from my perspective.

This is the fifth installment in our blog series examining the key questions that must be answered in order to plan your organization’s IT for 2022. The complex task of migrating applications to the cloud As the benefits of cloud continue to be realized, more and more organizations are accelerating their plans to utilize public cloud services for their workloads. If you’re like many businesses, your first few cloud-based applications were developed directly in the cloud and were architected to use cloud-friendly patterns and services.

SAP is known by SAM practitioners to have one of the most complex software licensing models. In fact, in a 2021 SAP User Group Survey, 95 percent of respondents said that SAP’s licensing is ‘overly complicated. On top of that, 67 percent of users claimed that they have found it challenging to keep track of SAP license usage. Additionally, according to Flexera’s 2022 State of ITAM Report, 30 percent of respondents claim that their SAM practices are still in the beginner phase. It’s clear that SAM practitioners need help tracking usage and consumption. But what can you do to optimize…

You need quality data to make good decisions—and Flexera’s Data Platform delivers. See how you can get clean, accurate and complete data for your enterprise architecture and technology initiatives.

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When it comes to the cloud, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Join experts from Flexera and Forrester as they discuss the strategies, challenges and initiatives revealed in the 2022 State of the Cloud Report. Register today to learn how to have a successful cloud journey.

The agility the cloud affords is now more crucial than ever to businesses across the globe. Fortunately, Flexera recognized years ago that public and private cloud use would transform IT and the business world rapidly. The company took steps to build our business around these game-changing technologies.

In today’s increasingly digital world, the ways a business approaches its cloud computing strategy is paramount. Cloud adoption was already expanding for several years and has been accelerated by the pandemic. But as a post-pandemic world begins to take shape, new trends in cloud usage are beginning to take shape. The eleventh annual Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report (previously known as the RightScale State of the Cloud Report) highlights the latest cloud computing trends, including strategies, challenges and initiatives from a broad cross-section of industries and organizations.

As a cloud leader in your organization, you could probably use quick answers on how to get moving on your most difficult challenges. You’ll find 18 answers in this handy report from Forrester.

Cloud cost optimization is an easy win on your cloud management journey. This Forrester report shares 10 key facts you need to know to tackle your cloud costs.

Understanding FinOps—and how to make it work for you Bringing financial accountability to the cloud It seems like there’s always another “ops” on the way; in fact, it’s common slang among techies to use “YA” (yet another) in front of the latest and greatest industry acronym. From the early days of the union of cloud computing and the agile development methodology we were introduced to the concept of DevOps. Then the evolution of security tools and automation gave rise to SecOps. If you include developer responsibility and participation in the security mix, you get the mouthful of DevSecOps.

This is the fourth installment in our blog series illuminating the essential questions that must be answered in order to plan your organization’s IT for 2022.

This overview reveals how Flexera is uniquely positioned to help financial institutions navigate the rigorous processes of the governing and auditing regulatory bodies.

Only Flexera One provides the game-changing data and automation you need to manage and optimize your hybrid IT world, including definitive technology resource data, consumption intelligence and automated portfolio governance.

The Dutch Police needed trustworthy data, knowing data’s impact on business operations is only as strong as its quality. Since implementing Flexera One IT Asset Management, they've saved multi-millions of euros through ITAM and cost avoidance.

We need to pivot from the concept of government IT spending to government IT investing, because only then will federal agency leaders understand and expect to get something in return. Otherwise, there’s no way to measure the value of the entire government’s $90B federal civilian IT budget.  One of the largest sources for unplanned and unexpected expenses is underutilized software licenses that cost federal agencies billions of dollars each year.

Here at Flexera, we are passionate about teaming up with our partners to provide the most seamless experience for our customers. As of late, we’ve been working with Salesforce to make managing your Salesforce environment easier than ever. In early January of 2022, we announced new functionality in Flexera One around the Salesforce AppExchange.

Enterprises that want to mix the resources of multiple private and public clouds in hybrid cloud configurations should consider certain key factors as they design their solutions.

EDEKA DIGITAL saves €6.2 million in software license costs and reduces audit prep time with Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software.

Flexera One has four differentiators which give you the vision and tools to see your technology and seize technology opportunities across your hybrid IT landscape.

This informative video demonstrates Flexera One’s four differentiators which give you the vision and tools to see your technology and seize technology opportunities across your hybrid IT landscape.

As noted the last time we discussed containers, specifically Kubernetes, they pose a significant challenge for IT. You can easily lose sight of applications in containers, including whether or not you’re license compliant. Container-based licensing is evolving and there are both compliance and cost issues to consider when implementing them across your IT estate. They also currently represent a significant risk to organizations using them more and more.

Most organizations perform on-premises software discovery, inventory and audits, but less than one-third focus on optimizing cloud spend and usage. And this extends into containers. Forrester’s Charles Betz discusses how to add container management to your organization’s toolkit.

It’s increasingly difficult to manage and optimize cloud resources—and the adoption of containers, Kubernetes and Kubernetes-based services doesn’t help one bit. Register for this webinar to ensure you’re paying only for the resources you consume.

Learn about cutting-edge technologies that have evolved within the cloud computing space in the last few years, including PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) offerings, as well as serverless technologies.

This webinar provides perspectives on key market trends shaping the software security market and shows the importance of not only understanding what’s at risk, but how to prioritize vulnerabilities that will have the greatest impact on your organization with the help of SVM.

Financial institutions know the pressure of handling sensitive information as well as the costs of inconsistent data or even a data breach. Flexera’s John Schwartzenberger discusses how regulatory agencies like the FFIEC audit financial organizations like yours, and how a proactive approach can pay dividends.

Managing Salesforce active and inactive users can be challenging, especially users active in AppExchange. Flexera One SaaS Management makes it less daunting by giving you full visibility and managing rights. Watch the demo and see how easy it is to use as it saves cost and protects your organization’s critical information.