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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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5 Must-Have Features of Backup as a Service For Hybrid Environments

CIO Business Intelligence

As the value and business criticality of data increases, so do the challenges of backup, recovery, and data management. Many IT organizations that have cobbled together data protection solutions over the years now find themselves saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup approach.

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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

Initial purchase, configuration, and installation Negotiating software license terms is a skill in itself that might require assistance from the company’s legal team or CFO. When performing a TCO analysis, it’s important to try to accurately estimate how many licenses you need today, as well as how many licenses you might need down the road.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO Business Intelligence

Notably, the company’s extensive cloud solutions portfolio, including the 11:11 Public Cloud and 11:11 Private Cloud , draws on those offerings and includes numerous services, such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Backup-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, and full multi- and hybrid cloud capabilities.

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Third-party support: a cure for convoluted database costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Gone are the days when companies used a single database and had a straightforward cost structure, including hardware and software costs and number of users. Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source.

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Nutanix hunts disgruntled VMware customers

Network World

The deals are aimed at enabling customers to gain the benefits of Nutanix’s cloud platform without having to swap out the underlying server hardware or change server vendors. He adds that the real impact will be seen over time as VMware software licenses expire. The Nutanix offerings seem to be resonating with customers.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

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. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8

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