If you have redundant Microsoft software licenses that are sitting around doing nothing for your business, one of the best options available to you is to sell them.

There was a time, fairly recently in fact, when the "cloud" was seen as the be-all and end-all of the ways businesses were going to manage their data in the future. As a business owner, you yourself have already had multiple offers to join cloud-based services, offering all manner of supposed benefits.

When a 24/7 service provider decided it was time to refresh their Office 2013 Standard, they looked towards the Cloud. Being a subscription, it would be Opex rather than Capex expenditure so would possibly be easier to get approved internally. They had observed that other decision-makers in their industry were making the switch to Microsoft Cloud that led them to think that the Cloud was a more cost-effective option for their 4000 seats.

Purchasing pre-owned software is quick and easy, saving you a significant sum of money. We have many satisfied customers across Europe – in fact, as much as 60% of our business takes place around Europe. Opting for pre-owned perpetual software licensing over cloud-based upgrades means you get permanent access to software for a fraction of the original price.

IT giant Microsoft has been making headlines for the wrong reasons recently, after a new report has revealed that some 250 million of its customer records – spanning 14 years – have been exposed for all to see online without password protection.

Old Lady Grumbles About New Thingy

The Bank of England is loosening up on IT delivery and recruitment, but not its resistance to public cloud.

After a few thousand articles on the benefits of cloud computing, it’s hard to imagine what kind of company would resist the lure to move to the cloud.

Around about the time that Adobe moved its software products 'lock, stock and barrel' over to a subscription based licensing program, we were being bombarded with hyped up ‘Cloud’ stories that proclaimed “Armageddon” for ‘Perpetual / on-Premises’ (we’ll refer to 'Perpetual / on-Premises' as ‘non-Cloud’) software markets by the year 2015 / 2016.

Stick that online service up your SaaS

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Adobe’s spectacular FAIL over the last 48 hours confirmed, rather than revealed, cloud computing to be so unreliable as to be positively dangerous. Cloud computing is shite. It takes over everything you’ve got, then farts in your face and runs away giggling. Find out more here.