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IT frustration costs companies more than $100 million a year — with shadow IT the only user solution

CIO Business Intelligence

At issue is the complexity and number of applications employees must learn, and switch between, to get their work done. With all whats happened in the last decade, it comes to hundreds of applications. Shadow IT can create several problems, he says, including software license violations and security holes.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. McDowell agrees.

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says. You have user interfaces that say, ‘I want my application to do this,’ you hit the button, and the code gets generated in the background.” Does the output infringe something that someone else has done?”

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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VMware Explore 2024: Latest news and insights

Network World

The conference, the first after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, highlighted the growing trend of companies bringing workloads back from public clouds to on-premises environments. Despite the interest in private, the cloud migration is still a hot topic. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov.

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Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?

CIO Business Intelligence

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own.

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Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

CIO Business Intelligence

The software company is making it virtually impossible for its customers to work with non-SAP process mining solutions. The following year, the Munich-based company participated in SAPs Startup Focus program the starting point of a long-term business relationship between SAP and Celonis. Celonis was launched in 2011.

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