Can an Enterprise License Agreement be Transformational?
In Enterprise IT we’re all used to life cycle managed of equipment. For a long time, one of the most painful areas for this was the storage array. Every few years it became time to rip out the old gear and bring in the new. That process has gotten much better, but one thing still bothers me. What happens to the software that I paid for when I bought that storage array? The idea isn’t limited to storage arrays either. Enterprise IT shops buy software to do something, then their needs change, and they replace that software. As long as they got the business value from the software, no one cares that they essentially throw the bits away. When dealing with big vendors, like VMware or HPE, this is where the Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) comes into play. It’s an agreement between a vendor and a customer saying that vendor agrees to provide and support software inRead More →