Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.” That’s where we came up with this vision: people would build private clouds with fully software-defined networks, storage and computing.

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CTO Vmware Cloud Storage 395

Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. VMware stung by defections and layoffs after Broadcom close November 30, 2023 : Layoffs are inevitable after an acquisition as companies deal with overlap and redundancy.

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Vmware Symantec Licensing Enterprise 420

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

The stories abound about pricing increases following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in late 2023. A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. VMware has also announced that perpetual licenses are no longer an option. An increase of 300%.

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Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 214

Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. >

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Network Industry Oracle Education 388

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources. VergeIO is not a startup; the company was founded in 2010 and hasnt made huge waves in the market.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Data Center 195

Network World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Broadcom has fired back in the ongoing legal dispute with AT&T over VMware software support services, claiming that AT&T is resorting to “sensationalism” and had long intended to stop using VMware software but delayed the move.

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Vmware Licensing Software Software 369

Network World

JULY 9, 2024

In 2023, the four-year-old startup was added to the US Entities List, largely preventing it from obtaining American technologies without a special license. The announcement comes amid ongoing US restrictions on China, which have significantly affected Moore Threads.

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Data Center Data Licensing Research 436

TechSpot

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft has revealed on the softwares' official product pages that it will stop directly issuing licenses for Windows 10 Home, Pro, and Workstation. The disclaimer states that January 31, 2023, is the last day consumers can download the operating systems from Microsoft's site.

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Network World

JUNE 24, 2024

Channel partners now have vendor-level powers over licensing, account management, visibility, and more,” said Frank Rauch, global channel chief at Cato Networks, in a statement. The PoPs software continuously monitors the providers for latency, packet loss, and jitter to determine in real-time the best route for every packet.

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Network Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 370

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

CIOs have a tough balance to strike: On one hand, theyre tasked with maintaining a large number of applications research from Salesforce shows that in 2023 organizations were using 1,061 different applications in varying stages of age, all the while maintaining interoperability and security and reducing overall spend.

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How To Licensing SAP Enterprise 130

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. As a result of all this experience, companies should know what to do to make sure they’re using properly-licensed code, how to check for vulnerabilities, and how to keep everything patched and up-to-date.

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Open Source Licensing Training Enterprise 342

Network World

JULY 1, 2024

Nutanix has pivoted from selling rigid, preconfigured appliances to offering enterprise customers a flexible, software-defined platform for managing hybrid, multi-cloud environments. “As million in fiscal 2023 and is on track to be in the red for fiscal 2024, which ends in July. It reported a loss of $207.2 Nutanix also saw 28.6%

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Vmware Dell Licensing Cloud 282

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

SAP has given CIOs another reason to consider moving to the cloud: rising support costs for on-premises software. The company will raise the cost of its SAP Standard Support, SAP Enterprise Support, and SAP Product Support for Large Enterprises contracts for existing customers from January 1, 2023.

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SAP Licensing Cloud Software 246

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. The results spoke for themselves. Insight #3: 99% of respondents are wary of vendor subscription models.

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Survey Fractional CTO CTO Hire Licensing 321

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

The cloud vendors first raised concerns in 2022, after they said their customers were “asked to pay more to run Microsoft software in non-Microsoft cloud environments, under what they saw as restrictive cloud licensing policies.” However, even with these deals, Microsoft is still under the microscope, especially in Spain.”

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Microsoft Cloud Licensing Government 308

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available. This can be a tough sell for enterprises that bought a perpetual license for their ERP system years ago, and have the cost of maintenance indexed to that, as moving to Rise involves giving up that license and taking out a subscription.

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SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 317

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Organizations with subscription-based business models have not only survived the recent global economic challenges but have also outperformed their traditional, product-based counterparts, according to The Subscription Economy Index (SEI) report for 2023 by Zuora. against the latter’s 4.8%.

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CTO Licensing Strategy Software 279

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This should help enterprises with AI use cases and reduce cloud egress costs, said IDC SVP of industry, software, and services research Bob Parker. SAP has said that it might expand its partnership with other software vendors over time. This means that a Databricks license is included in the purchase.

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SAP Data Cloud Enterprise 162

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Citing currency fluctuations, Microsoft is all set to increase prices of its on-premises software, online services and Windows licenses in India by up to 11%. The change will see India prices for commercial on-premises software rise by 4.5%, Microsoft said in a blog post. Microsoft, Pricing

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Microsoft Software Software Licensing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

While the OAU program gives customers access to security patches and application updates which may be delivered through periodic upgrades at a cost of typically 22% of the annual license fees, applying changes to software introduces risk of compatibility issues with existing applications and customized software.

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Oracle Applications Security How To 147

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

According to IDC’s North American Tools/Vendors Consolidation Survey (November 2023), organizations plan to add even more security tools to their arsenals over time. Tools that can help with security tool discovery include: Software asset management (SAM) tools, which identify software in the environment.

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Tools Security Disaster Recovery Survey 312

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Gartner analyst Jon Forest adds, “They want to be much more than a networking company as far as selling boxes and licensing software. He points out that Cisco has gone through numerous evolutions in its history, from a product company to a software company to a cloud company to a platform company and now to a data company.

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Data Center Network Security LAN 434

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

SAP said Thursday it will raise the cost of support for users of its on-premises software for the second year in a row, just days after announcing plans to withhold future innovations in its products from on-prem customers. for June 2023 , down from 9.4% Now here comes the stick. a year earlier after hitting a peak of 11.1%

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SAP Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 244

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. If you look at SAP, for some of our clients, they are looking at a billion dollars of investment between the data migration, the software, the consulting services, the training, all of it.

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SAP Oracle Microsoft Cloud 325

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Demand for the process mining software is still strong in 2023.

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SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 290

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. in June, 2022, to 3.7%

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Software 334

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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HP Software Software Licensing 264

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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WAN Network Security Cloud 334

GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2024

A VR demo at the Emirates booth during the 2023 Dubai Airshow is the subject of a lawsuit filed by a software development firm against Amazon Web Services. alleges that AWS wrongly terminated their broader software development agreement and owes more than $1.27 Surreal Holdings of Alpharetta, Ga.,

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Software Software Web Services Software Development 132

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Talent, software spending lead the way According to Forrester’s guide, personnel accounts for nearly 35% of IT budgets.

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Budget Strategy Fractional CTO CTO Hire 336

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2023

It’s also advisable for customers to conduct a thorough review of their SAP agreements and commercial protections before assuming a false sense of security with respect to their purchase or negotiation position for additional on-premises licenses. For example: It’s in SAP’s nature to sell software, not a managed service offering.

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SAP Strategy Cloud Licensing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

HPE Aruba Networking is coming off a very strong Q2 2023 with our Intelligent Edge revenue reaching $1.3 The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023. billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.

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Data Center Cloud Data Network 246

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

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Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 351

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

To achieve this, we are aligning our VMware-based services and solutions to VMware Cloud Foundation , which is one of the industry’s core software stacks that serves as the foundation of private and hybrid clouds. The IBM and VMware relationship goes back two decades and includes our jointly funded innovation lab.

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Vmware IBM Cloud Enterprise 290

TechSpot

MAY 15, 2024

While the company was still busy assimilating VMware's virtualization business, Broadcom confirmed in 2023 that the line of Workstation desktop virtualization software wasn't going anywhere. Workstation will be part of VMware even after the Broadcom acquisition, although license conditions will change. Read Entire Article

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Software 111

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Bouyed by the growing wave of software developers adopting artificial intelligence, GitHub is previewing a system called Copilot Workspace that uses natural language to help developers plan and implement projects. Inbal Shani, chief product officer at GitHub, during the 2023 GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct.

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