Has managing desktops in your organizations become more challenging over the last five years with the growing number of remote workers? Have you explored Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) to learn how it could help you reduce cost and simplify IT management? Are you familiar with the offerings available on Amazon WorkSpaces and the option to bring your […]
Evolve Cloud Services helps organizations optimize and modernize their server-based workloads as they migrate to the cloud. Organizations that partner with Evolve gain insight into the technical and licensing aspects of cloud migration, which improve efficiency and reduce cost. A valuable component of this engagement is identifying the best virtualization solution for high performance and low cost.
A Brief History of Porting .NET Framework to modern .NET Pre-generative-AI tools and librariesModernizing legacy .NET Framework applications to modern, cross-platform versions of .NET (aka .NET Core) has been a laborious process that has gotten easier as tools and libraries have launched over the past half-decade. AWS launched their Porting Assistant for .NET in 2020,
In 2024 Microsoft announced that certain customers will be unable to renew their Enterprise Agreements (EA) at expiration. While this change is limited to a small percentage of organizations, it could be indicative of future changes that may have an impact on a broader audience. What did Microsoft Announce? On November 12th, 2024, Microsoft announced:
Microsoft updated to the Service Provider Use Rights (SPUR) to remove the option for service providers to use their own Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) licenses in Listed Provider environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba, Azure) after October 1, 2025. Service providers impacted by this change are advised to contact EVOLVE Cloud Services for help optimizing and/or modernizing their cloud deployments.
While often overlooked, the software licensing costs associated with workloads that you move to the cloud are 3 to 4 times the costs of all other cloud operational costs (compute, network & storage). As a result, it’s imperative that you understand the licensing impact, both from a cost optimization and compliance perspective, for any new
We have been seeing more and more customers over the last year either put themselves into a compliance issue or lose their long term licensing flexibility because they do not understand their licensing rules & options regarding Windows Server licensing subscriptions and their use in the Public Cloud. Microsoft made some significant licensing changes that
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on cloud and software licensing strategies for most companies. The need for increased flexibility & scalability has accelerated cloud migration timelines. Staff reductions, ability to scale both up and down and the need to cut costs have also had companies re-evaluating the best licensing strategy to implement
It’s fascinating how quickly companies perceptions have evolved over the last few years when it comes to cloud computing. Just thinking back to conversations that we had with customers about moving their server infrastructure to the public cloud, the typical responses went something like this: 2016 – “We are never moving to the cloud!” 2018
On August 1, 2019, Microsoft announced a significant licensing change that has a major impact on current and future AWS and other Public Cloud provider workloads. The intent behind this change was to make a clear distinction between licensing rights for Microsoft software on hardware leased and managed by traditional outsourcers verses dedicated hosted services
