CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Dreamforce 2024, which debuted in 2003, kicks off on Tuesday in San Francisco, featuring more than 1,200 keynotes, sessions, and workshops. In the leadup to Dreamforce, check out popular related Salesforce coverage below and be sure to follow this page next week for news from Dreamforce 2024. billion in cash.

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Cloud Software Software Data 284

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Some delayed decisions by relying on existing VMware licenses, while others explored alternatives or ran redundancies to compare options. Forrester predicted 20% of VMware customers would leave in 2024 , “exhausted by significant price hikes, degrading support, and mandatory subscription.”

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Vmware Hotels Cloud Strategy 312

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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Licensing Microsoft Cloud Web Services 272

Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With the acquisition closed, the American multinational brought its VMware Explore 2024 event to Barcelona from Nov. VMware customer concerns linger : Enterprise customers have questions about VMware’s future direction, licensing changes, and product roadmap following Broadcom’s takeover. What was once VMware is now Broadcom.

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CTO Vmware Cloud Storage 394

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Theres still enough spending by enterprises on servers, licensed software, and the skill sets they need to maintain and operate the environment that currently exists. In fact, Gartner says that 2024 global enterprise spending on data centers was a healthy $66 billion. The enterprise data center is here to stay.

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Data Center Enterprise Enterprise Data 324

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Concerns about price hikes surfaced when Broadcom moved VMware away from perpetual licensing terms and onto a subscription model that bundles multiple products together. 7, 2024, to $232 at close on Feb. billion in Q4 of 2024. The capital cost of the new VMWare licensing is but a small part of the overall project.

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Vmware Comparison Virtualization Disaster Recovery 287

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SAP customers have a lot to navigate in 2024. You should no longer assume SAP is simply interested in managing infrastructure or introducing a new product repackaging and license scheme. The introduction of RISE and GROW is no different.

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SAP Licensing Strategy Cloud 295

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas. By 2028, at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI, up from 0% in 2024, Gartner predicts.

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Energy Healthcare Enterprise Enterprise 338

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Gartner is projecting worldwide IT spending to jump by 9.3% in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. trillion, builds on its prediction of an 8.2%

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Data Center Artificial Intelligence Software Software 334

Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Discontent over VMware licensing changes and shifts to the partner program has sent customers looking elsewhere, and at least two competitors say they are benefiting from the discord in the form of increased sales.

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Vmware Licensing Hotels Virtualization 459

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

CIOs surveyed by Gartner at the end of 2024 expect an 8.9% trillion in 2024. Cloud services, software licenses, hardware everythings creeping up, he says. cost increase, on average, for IT products and services. These price hikes, along with continued AI investment, are driving a projected 9.8% It now projects $5.62

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Budget Cloud Energy Storage 290

Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

And 86% of more than 1,000 global employers surveyed in 2024 for the World Economic Forums Future of Jobs Report pointed to AI and information processing systems as a technology trend driving business transformation. Available now, CompTIA AI Essentials costs $129 and includes a license that would be valid for 12 months.

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Training Resources Artificial Intelligence Programming 195

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

We averaged 612 billion events a day in 2024 and have had daily peaks as high as 900 billion, he adds. The Foundation is also responding to requests from practitioners to extend its framework to cover other areas of IT, such as private cloud, SaaS, licensing, and on-prem data centers.

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Cloud Tools Engineering Financial 300

Network World

MAY 20, 2024

First, tool vendors sold them with perpetual licenses, which meant a long-term investment. Most network management tools are now available as SaaS solutions with a subscription license. Tools aren’t as “sticky“ as they once were For a variety of reasons, network management tools have historically been sticky in IT organizations.

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Tools Network Licensing WAN 488

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

The average large enterprise lost $104 million to digital inefficiencies in 2024, driven by productivity losses connected to employee IT frustrations and hundreds of ghost apps flying under the radar, according to a new study. Shadow IT can create several problems, he says, including software license violations and security holes.

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Fractional CTO Study Company Enterprise 261

Network World

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The system has already shown its effectiveness: since early 2024, it has detected over 8,200 criminal offenses and recorded 7.1 million traffic violations , resulting in significant improvements in public safety and road management. At the heart of this transformation is the use of artificial intelligence.

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Artificial Intelligence System Network Licensing 195

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.”

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Insurance Data Center Training Data 305

Network World

JULY 8, 2024

Separately, another state-owned outlet on Sunday quoted one official from China’s Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) saying that the country’s total computing capacity in 2024 had reached 230 exaFLOPS during a conference on digital economy. China ranks second after the US in compute capacity, according to CAICT.

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Data Center Artificial Intelligence Energy Construction 368

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Here is the latest Oracle news and analysis: Oracle CloudWorld 2024: What to expect August 30, 2024: Oracle’s Database 23c gets vector search to underpin generative AI use cases · Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave gets Vector Store, generative AI features.

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Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Applications 298

Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

Since November of 2023, the normal number one customer were attracting right now is guys that have had a heart attack when they got their VMware renewal license, Crump said. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Data Center 195

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source. Complex licensing structures. Many database vendors tout a flexible licensing structure. Use cases can be complex, with no two contracts alike.

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Oracle Open Source Licensing Enterprise 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.”

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Insurance Data Center Training Data 263

Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

These cameras are connected to advanced AI-driven analytics, providing real-time facial recognition, event detection, and license plate identification capabilities. For the first half of 2024, no cases of torture by staff were reported, a testament to the systems effectiveness.

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System Video Trends Licensing 413

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

2024: AI in force, strategies evolve 2024 will continue to see accelerated growth for the cloud services market, with spend predicted to reach $679B this year. 2023 was a year of growth and service diversification for the cloud services space, and we expect to see that continue throughout 2024.

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Strategy Cloud Storage Data Center 328

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2024

SAP’s promised collaboration between its AI copilot, Joule, and other agents will become reality in the fourth quarter of 2024, the company announced at its 2024 TechEd conference Tuesday.

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SAP Conference Licensing Applications 325

GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2025

Redfin grew revenue by 7% in 2024 to $1.04 It also laid off 4% of its workforce, or 201 employees, in April 2023, and did another layoff in August 2024. The company cut 450 employees after announcing a recent licensing deal with Zillow Group. billion in 2024, and adjusted net income of $456 million.

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Real Estate Company .Net Financial 108

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The main floor of the 2024 Seattle International Auto Show at Lumen Field Event Center. The company is also a licensed dealer, which allows it to work with lenders and facilitate EV rebates. million in a new funding round. Buyers and sellers each pay a $99 fee that can be split equally or paid by one party.

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Security Automotive CTO Licensing 112

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

Agentforce is a low-code/no-code platform for building autonomous AI agents that Salesforce co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Marc Benioff is expected to detail in his Dreamforce 2024 keynote in September. During the CRM giant’s 2QFY25 earnings call on Aug. How does the pricing change account for that?”

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Business Transformation Licensing Hardware Data 326

GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Founded in 2009, Audiosocket is seeing growth of its music licensing software products used by social media creators, movie production studios, and others. Some of the artists on the music licensing platform Audiosocket. She expects far better growth in 2024 based on just-closed and proposed deals.

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Licensing Artificial Intelligence Video Exercises 125

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. 3 Breaches are also expensive.

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Oracle Applications Security How To 147

Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

VMware’s solution, he said, was to make its software products work well together in a single platform known as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and the upcoming major release, VCF 9 , addresses many of the complaints, adding a new operations console, centralized governance policies, a common identity system, unified license and fleet management, and (..)

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Cloud Vmware Symantec Policies 397

GeekWire

JANUARY 29, 2025

facility between August and October 2024. Under the terms of Amazons Federal Communications Commission license, half of its 3,232 satellites are to be launched by mid-2026. The lawsuit, filed this week in King County Superior Court in Seattle, says the newspaper on Nov. Read the full text of the complaint below.

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Internet Licensing Network Industry 145

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

According to the 2024 State of Production Kubernetes report from Spectro Cloud, 85% of organizations have Kubernetes in virtualized data centers, and 75% of organizations are committed to adopting Kubernetes for future infrastructure needs.

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Vmware 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. Taxes are set to increase by 7.49% from April 2024, adding to the public backlash, the report added. While third-party expertise was essential, it also weakened internal control over the projects financial and operational outcomes.

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Oracle Vendor Management Government System 179

Network World

AUGUST 19, 2024

VMware Explore 2024 is set to kick off next week, marking the first time for the flagship customer event since Broadcom finalized its acquisition of VMware last November. Will Broadcom raise prices, introduce new licensing models, or rationalize products? This will take some time but is moving rather quickly.”

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Vmware Survey Research Strategy 413

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The system has already shown its effectiveness: since early 2024, it has detected over 8,200 criminal offenses and recorded 7.1 million traffic violations , resulting in significant improvements in public safety and road management. At the heart of this transformation is the use of artificial intelligence.

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Artificial Intelligence System Network Licensing 130

Network World

JULY 1, 2024

And Nutanix is aggressively courting VMware customers who might be open to jumping ship in the wake of VMware’s purchase by Broadcom and some of the unpopular moves that have followed, such as potentially costly changes to licensing terms and disruptions to channel relationships. It reported a loss of $207.2 Nutanix also saw 28.6%

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Vmware Dell Licensing Cloud 282