For all the flexibility server vitalization affords today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s IT departments, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one type of flexibility IT managers would love to have but aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t likely to get: the ability to save money on Microsoft software licenses. Even when carving a physical server into multiple virtual machines, customers using vitalization probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find any way to circumvent the licensing terms set by Microsoft for software running on virtual machines, Forrester analyst Christopher Voce said at Forrester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s IT Forum in Las Vegas Friday. <\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you are getting any benefit from Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s software, you need to have a license, whether that benefit is for physical machines or virtual machines,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Voce said in a session titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Microsoft Licensing in a Virtual World.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You cannot engineer your way around licensing requirements. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use the technology as a way to cut corners around licensing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n