Federal agencies have made great strides in the past seven months shoring up their software license management. That’s the headline of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s seventh IT ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. Although server virtualization has eased the job of network ...

Over the last decade, the complexities of managing enterprise software have grown exponentially. Cloud computing, virtualization, mobility and an array of trends — including bring-your-own-device ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage ...

While every software license management (SLM) program is unique to the organization it serves, several common steps can maximize the return on investment (ROI) made in the people, processes and ...

Federal IT officials are starting to consider another side effect of the demand for near-universal telework: the need for better inventorying of their software licenses, especially now that agencies ...

Organizations spend millions of dollars annually on software license fees, so savvy managers are always on the lookout for management strategies to help them reduce license costs and maximize the ...

NASA faced another moon shot. This time, the civilian space ­agency’s monumental task was to help reduce government spending on software. For NASA, that meant eliminating duplicate software licenses ...

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 ...

The Government Accountability Office says the federal government could do a better job of managing enterprise software licenses, but the federal CIO contends that GAO is overstating the problem.