Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Coming up: VMware Explore Barcelona, Fira Gran Via November 4-7, 2024 VMware Explore 2024 attendees saw an emphasis on private AI and cloud repatriation as key strategies for enterprises. 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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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

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. SoftBank Group has announced plans to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

The successor to SAP ECC, S/4HANA is built on an in-memory database and is designed to enable real-time data processing and analysis for businesses. It is available both in a cloud-based SaaS and an on-premises version. This enables companies to connect processes and experience-based data and drive optimization and innovation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

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.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Microsoft’s cloud business is under surveillance in Europe: The association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has set up new monitoring body to ensure the tech giant complies with a legal settlement to keep cloud licensing practices fair in the region.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “I claim there really are almost no companies in the world, just a handful, that are really investing in scaled public cloud infrastructure,” said Ballmer (see transcript ). 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In our case, we run it on AWS within our own private cloud, he says. Chatbot Arena ranks more than 160 top models both proprietary and open source and lists their licenses. And if its used in an app or service with more than 700 million monthly users, a special license from Meta is required. Finally, theres the price.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

Simplicity is a superpower that’s strong,” said Chris Wolf, global head of AI and advanced services, VMware Cloud Foundation division of Broadcom. One bright shiny object that VMware pursued a decade ago, he said, was the public cloud. You’re confronting the three Cs of public cloud. Complexity: It is another platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Discover how to extend the life of your databases, improve ROI, and fund innovation with support savings: Learn more about Rimini Street services and support for Oracle Database Data Center Management, IT Leadership

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Big Data. (6). Cloud Computing. (55). Data Center efficiency. (1). Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in. Cloud Computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is aimed at unifying its campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine. Central to the platform are the firm’s cloud-based, natural language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology. Marvis Minis for wireless deployments, announced in May.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIOs deployment profile is currently 70% on premises and about 30% via bare-metal service providers, with a particularly strong following among cloud service providers that host applications for their customers. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Network World

JULY 31, 2024

Amazon is suing Nokia, accusing the networking giant of having violated a dozen of Amazon’s cloud patents. Back then, Nokia Chief Licensing Officer Arvin Patel wrote in a blog post: “Today, we have commenced legal action against Amazon for the unauthorized use of Nokia’s video-related technologies in its streaming services and devices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

The cloud services landscape is in constant flux. With the cloud being an inevitable part of enterprise digital transformation journeys, IT leaders must keep on top of the latest developments in the cloud market to better predict downstream impacts on their roadmaps.

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Network World

JULY 25, 2024

And if it was the extra little bit of runway perpetual license holdouts needed in order to move to VCF, why not get some good press about it rather than including it as a ‘standard concession’ on every deal they are inking and signing over the next 12 months?”

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Network World

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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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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. But the analogy has its limitations because many users think of mainframes as a legacy technology, while VMwares cloud-based products address future challenges, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLellan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She started out as senior director of engineering and climbed the ranks to excel at numerous positions, including senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Cloud, Compute, and IoT business, chief strategy officer, and general manager of applications. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

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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. Competitors are claiming some success in attracting VM defectors , though analysts aren’t reporting widespread migrations. VMware customers would be wise to have an exit plan.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

A key differentiator for VMware Cloud Foundation as the industry-leading private cloud platform is flexibility. And our VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) partners are a vital component of this flexibility. It feels like a public cloud, but its a private cloud, and that is the benefit you get from VMware Cloud Foundation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. The elephant in the room for hyperconverged infrastructures is indubitably cloud. The concept of HCI was presented first and foremost as a data center technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves. They have two options.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

For some organizations, shifting to the cloud has been a relatively quick race toward highly publicized benefits, such as scalability. The reality is we’ve been incrementally migrating certain applications, workloads, and processes to the cloud over a number of years. “The

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology. Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Multi-cloud provides increased velocity, scale, and choice by enabling enterprises to create and deploy new services across clouds. But multi-cloud environments will quickly lose their allure if their operations are not seamless.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It was only a few years ago when ‘digital transformation’ was on every CIO’s agenda, and businesses started to understand how cloud could deliver real value. They stopped asking whether they should move to the cloud and started asking what they needed to do to get there. Honestly, in 2016, cloud wasn’t really affordable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

As we moved from transaction to integration, we began to translate customer thoughts into a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for VMware Cloud Foundation, or VCF. One of the hot topics across customer and partner communities has been the changes to how we engage with cloud service providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The move could boost Amazon’s cloud business by reducing a major hurdle for customers to move away from data centers and servers running on Microsoft’s operating system.

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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. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

Rohit Badlaney, General Manager of IBM Cloud Product and Industry Platforms, brings more than two decades of experience in his role leading strategy, product management, design, and go-to-market for IBM Cloud. Badlaney believes that IBM stands out among other hyperscalers for being the destination for VMware workloads in the cloud.

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