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Essentials for Effective Oracle Software Asset Management
Management and tracking of software assets is a critical element for any modern IT organization. The benefits are obvious. Effective software asset management (SAM) enables optimization of the software investment while guarding against costly non-compliance....
read moreRwC @ NoCOUG Conference on August 2016
We had an amazing outing at the Northern California Oracle Users' Group (NoCOUG) Summer Conference on August 18, 2016. Held at the Chevron offices in San Ramon, California, the session brought in over 150 visitors from all over the SF Bay Area. Redwood Compliance LLC...
read moreOracle & VMware: Part II – Key points to keep in mind
If you read our previous blog post about Oracle in VMware and the Mars case, you may be tempted to assume that running Oracle software in VMware is easy, risk free and straightforward. After all, there is a court case that supports this assumption. This assumption,...
read moreOracle & VMware: Part I – What you can learn from Mars Vs. Oracle
The subject of running Oracle software in VMware has been a contentious one for some time. Oracle's own contract language does not deal with it directly or explicitly. Oracle's position has been to essentially not recognize VMware as a means of reducing the licensing...
read moreOracle audit resolution – the final stage.
Often times, customers don't realize there is plenty of opportunity to reduce the Oracle audit findings at any stage - even the final report stage. In fact, this is an excellent point to take full stock of the entire audit, review all the data provided, walk through...
read moreOracle ULA Certification: Should you run LMS’s scripts?
In short - No ... or at least do your best to find an alternative to running Oracle's scripts. That's because Oracle's scripts extract way more information than you think - and will put you at compliance risk. Let us elaborate... As mentioned in our previous blog post...
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