Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Steven Wells is the senior director of program management for DLT Solutions. Federal agencies didn’t fare so well in the latest Federal ...

A new report from the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has found that the agency’s software license management program is noncompliant with both its policies and industry best practices. The ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage ...

NASA faced another moon shot. This time, the civilian space ­agency’s monumental task was to help reduce government spending on software. For NASA, that meant eliminating duplicate software licenses ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. With public-sector budgets being notoriously tight, it is more ...

Licensing state-of-the-art software is supposed to help save the federal government money in IT efficiency, but a new study by the Government Accountability Office found that software mismanagement is ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Keeping track of software licenses and contracts that permit their use is not a new problem for IT managers. Software asset management (SAM) has ...

OpenLM's new-gen prod Virtual License Manager (VLM) (aka Virtualization License Manager), available on OpenLM Cloud Portal uses virtualization as a technology Virtual License Manager (aka ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...