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SoftBank to buy Ampere for $6.5B, fueling Arm-based server market competition

Network World

The deal, which sees Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes in Ampere, strengthens SoftBanks position in the growing market for AI-optimized processors as major cloud providers increasingly look beyond traditional x86 architecture.

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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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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. The entire architecture of S/4HANA is tightly integrated and coordinated from a software perspective. This allows for maximum flexibility.

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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads. Add to all this personnel costs, and the expense might not be worth it.

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Arista adds intelligent switch stacking, management for campus networks

Network World

Third, when customers are using third-party tools, such as SolarWinds for SNMP management, they are licensed via IP address. So, by exposing a single IP for a group of switches, customers can realize license cost savings,” Venkiteswaran said.

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DCK Video: ARM Partners To Bring SOC Solutions to the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

ARM, which licenses chip architecture to multiple companies, especially in the mobile phone market, is making a move into the networking and server areas of the data center. In this video, Data Center Knowledge spoke with Lakshmi Mandyam, Director, Server Systems & Ecosystems, ARM, about ARM.

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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.” The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023.