Software Licensing Management & Virtualization

Software Licensing Management & Virtualization

With platform virtualization, organizations can dramatically reduce their IT infrastructure hardware and management costs. It’s an industry-evolving technology that software vendors can’t afford to ignore. The rapidly growing popularity of virtual machines (VMs) makes the ability to license and control applications critical to business growth and durability.

SafeNet offers virtualization licensing enforcement. We are the industry’s only software licensing and management technology vendor with hardware and software-based options for delivering license virtualization applications in any virtualized environment. Our products allow you to:

  • Protect revenue by preventing copy/duplication of applications in virtual environments
  • Reduce churn, secure new business, and improve competitive position by supporting use of your application(s) within virtual environments
  • Increase profit with licensing and pricing models for virtual environments 
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Licensing Enforcement

  • Successful management of software in virtual environments requires the ability to enforce license terms once the application has been deployed, in addition to the support needed for license virtualization. Without enforcement, software publishers have no control over the license and as a result, their revenue.

Software-based virtualization licensing

  • SafeNet’s software based virtualization licensing solution allows vendors to authorize and control software in any virtualized environment with the industry’s first and only technology agnostic VM binding solution.
  • By enabling software vendors to bind a license to a single VM just as they would in a traditional software licensing environment, our technology protects the license and the application from copy and duplication in any end-user environment, virtualized or otherwise.
  • SafeNet’s VM binding solution gives a complete, easily managed, protection, licensing and management solution to vendors wanting to extend their hardware-based licensing offerings to a virtual environment. It is the most secure method available for preventing copy and duplication of software in virtual environments – no key or authorization required!

Hardware-based virtualization licensing

  • While hardware keys remain the most effective way to prevent unauthorized use and distribution of software in virtualized environments, for some that is not a practical option. Many of these solutions only detect the presence of a VM and allow or deny the execution of the software within those environments: an incomplete solution without any measure of control of the application once authorized.