Cloud Licensing

More and more ISVs are moving their applications to the cloud vs. deployment over traditional IT infrastructure. The benefits are easily recognizable: high availability, flexibility and scalability on-demand, management automation, and lower infrastructure and operating costs to name just a few. And the move to the cloud has greatly expanded the types of licensing models that ISVs can employ, like pay-as-you-go, subscriptions, and other consumption-based licenses.

In principle, there are two different approaches to cloud licensing: On the one hand, licenses can be created, managed, and updated via the cloud, while the licenses are actually located on the local device and can be used offline, at least for a certain period of time. On the other hand, the licenses can be used directly in the cloud. This case requires a permanent online connection to the server in the cloud. Especially if the number of licenses used simultaneously needs to be counted reliably, such a connection to the license server is inherent. Software developers want to enable their users to access local software with a license kept in the cloud.

There are a number of protection and licensing scenarios that exist when operating in the cloud, whether the license server is hosted in a public or private cloud.

• Software developers supply their users with SaaS solutions operated in the cloud. The required licenses might be tied to a single user or a given number of devices.
• Software developers want their users to have a reliable means of authentication for using their SaaS applications.
• Users might want to install and run software independently on their own private clouds.

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