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The Benefits of Data-Driven Software License Management Strategies

Name: The Benefits of Data-Driven Software License Management Strategies
Uploaded: 2024-01-26T05:00:35+00:00
Duration: 22 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin explains how a misconfigured VM role caused an organization to be charged over seven figures for Windows Server licenses even though they…

26 Jan 2024 · 0 min

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Mike Austin explains how a misconfigured VM role caused an organization to be charged over seven figures for Windows Server licenses even though they were running a Linux cluster. Proper data analysis could have caught the error before the bill arrived.

But because of the way VM roles worked, they needed to have license to the maximum number of VMs they could have on a host was costing them over seven figures of Windows server licenses. We're like, this is all Linux cluster, what's going on here, right? So we were able to go in and look at that and say, what the heck is going on? Why are you spending over a million bucks on Windows license in your Linux cluster?