by Neeley SAM Club | May 5, 2020 | The SAM Club News
One theme we have seen several times at The SAM Club is the spiralling licensing costs of SQL Server on premise. From client reviews we have completed we have seen several interesting scenarios including: DBA installing SQL Server Enterprise without realising...
by Neeley SAM Club | May 4, 2020 | The SAM Club News
As a result of COVID-19 we expect IT budgets to come under closer scrutiny to reduce costs despite increasing maintenance costs either due to Vendor price increases or where the price is based on the US$ exchange rate with regular fluctuations. At The SAM Club, one of...
by Neeley SAM Club | Apr 6, 2020 | The SAM Club News
As we enter a new decade The SAM Club is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. One thing that hasn’t changed over the 10 years is that licensing rules & compliance requirements continue to change. During our 10 years we have:- Continued to acquire long term clients...
by | Oct 30, 2019 | Azure, The SAM Club News
The SAM Club’s 6th Azure User Group meeting was kindly held at Neon Underwriters, a long-term client of ours based in London. The topic for this meeting was about a customer’s journey migrating to Azure. The SAM Club also presented on some of the licensing...
by Neeley SAM Club | Aug 14, 2019 | The SAM Club News
Our 5th Azure User Group meeting was about the Microsoft Cloud Economics Assessment and was kindly held at Charles Russell Speechly’s head office in London. We had some new faces join the group which is always great and gives different perspectives on the challenges...
by Neeley SAM Club | Jun 28, 2019 | Microsoft, The SAM Club News
Do you know which version of Microsoft licenses your organisation owns and is licensed to use? The Microsoft Business Center Portal (BCP) by design displays the original license view in case of licensing model changes. For example, with the licensing model for Windows...