by Mohammad Inamullah | Jul 7, 2022 | Compliance, General, Virtualization, VMware
Methodically counting Oracle licenses across different environments and infrastructure types is a critical pre-requisite to effective Oracle license management. I figured it would be helpful to gather the most important concepts in this quick reference. We will be...
by Mohammad Inamullah | May 21, 2021 | Audit Defense, Compliance, General, Virtualization
In a word: Yes. Oracle’s “Processor” definition requires customers to license all cores on all processors where Oracle programs are “installed and/or running“. The “running” part is easy to understand. The...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Mar 24, 2021 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, Compliance, GCP, ULA
We continue our journey through the Oracle licensing articles I wrote for the quarterly journal of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG). In this installment, we discuss Oracle’s policy on licensing its on-premise software in third-party cloud...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Feb 19, 2021 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, Compliance, GCP
Over the last couple of years, I have had the opportunity to write a number of articles for the quarterly journal of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG). The topics have mostly been about Oracle licensing in cloud environments, with a brief foray into...
by RedwoodCompliance | Mar 14, 2017 | Cloud, Compliance, Optimization, ULA
With the inevitability and benefits of cloud computing clear, companies are charting their respective courses from on-premise to the cloud. One key consideration is how to get the best value out of existing software licenses and deploying them in the cloud. For an...
by RedwoodCompliance | Feb 5, 2017 | Compliance, General, ULA
Any company with an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) will sooner or later be faced with the following key questions, among others: How much value was gotten out of the ULA? How much value is being left on the table? What compliance risks is the company...
