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Managing Complex Environments (Section 2: How would you manage it?…
Managing Complex Environments
Section 1: All environments aren't equal from a licensing perspective
Why
Complex licensing rules
Many ways to deploy
Architecture
Complex metrics
Metrics based on non-technical measures (e.g. turnover, number of expense claims)
What does this mean?
Increased risk of non-compliance
Inadvertent breach of license terms
Reluctance to make architectural changes
Technical understanding is required to interpret the license terms
Combination of skills (Technical, Legal, ITAM) required to extract best value from the licenses
Section 4: Case study
Oracle databases tend to have a long lifecycle
But the architectural possibilities change
Virtualisation
Cloud
And so do licensing terms
From box to processor to cores
Change in licensing to reflect Public Cloud deployment (Oracle Cloud cheaper than other clouds)
Java
Containers
And the underlying technology
Dense multi-core processors
Virtual Storage Arrays
Virtualisation
Software-defined Datacenter
And business requirements
Customer Self-Service
Integration with web services
Third-party and Indirect Access (e.g. SAP/Diageo)
Privacy & Regulatory Compliance
e.g. Encryption for GDPR
Section 2: How would you manage it?
Develop in-house knowledge
Need to combine Licensing & Legal & Technical Knowledge
Are the skills avaialable?
How do you retain those skills
Is it cost-effective to dedicate a FTE to such a role?
Engage a licensing Managed Service
Provides general license advice
Doesn't necessarily have technical expertise
Doesn't understand the business requirements & strategy (not aligned with or incentivised for that)
Engage a DBA technical resource
Probably has limited licensing knowledge
Incentivised to deploy and optimise the technical estate
May be incentivised by learning/deploying new features, regardless of business value
Probably not interested in licensing it
Section 3: How do we solve the management problem?
Build virtual internal team
DBA
Licensing Expert
Procurement/Legal
But this isn't a day job
Can't treat this as a project, it needs continuous management
Needs Automation
Needs technical restrictions to limit over-deployment and other risks
Needs continuous discovery
Mention SAP &IBM license management approach here (ILMT & LAW)
Engage a managed service to deliver these requirements