CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With tight IT budgets getting tighter, many Oracle licensees with Unlimited Licensing Agreements (ULAs) are tempted to consider an exit plan to avoid the pinch of rising support costs. Most enterprises want to avoid expending unnecessary time, effort, and resources on licensing issues, so they can focus on maximizing value and results.

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Oracle Licensing Enterprise Enterprise 260

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.

Vmware 287

Vmware Comparison Virtualization Disaster Recovery 287

Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Public cloud services are one of the biggest disruptions in the tech market in the past 15 years. Rymer published their latest public cloud services outlook, The Public Cloud Services Market Will Grow Rapidly To $236 Billion In 2020 ,projecting 22% annual growth in public cloud services over the 2015-to-2020 period.

Cloud 322

Cloud Web Services Licensing Storage 322

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

Vmware 214

Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 214

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects. The key message was, ‘Pace yourself.’”

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Data Center Artificial Intelligence Data Software 334

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. The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources.

Virtualization 195

Virtualization Network Vmware Data Center 195

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Liberty Mutual is one of the most experienced and advanced cloud adopters in the nation. And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 363

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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Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 363

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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Vmware IBM Cloud Enterprise 290

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Central to the platform are the firm’s cloud-based, natural language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology. Streamlined licensing is another component of the Blueprint. “To Juniper’s Mist AI engine analyzes data from networked access points and devices so it can detect anomalies and offer actionable resolutions.

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Education Programming Data Center Licensing 397

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

There are clear caveats in the HCI world: limitless control is all well and good, but infrastructure details like lack of local storage and slow networking hardware restricting I/O would always define the hard limits on what is possible. The elephant in the room for hyperconverged infrastructures is indubitably cloud.

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Cloud CTO Open Source Data Center 274

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

The cloud has changed the IT and business worlds forever, and generally for the better. But when misused or abused the cloud can backfire, leading to a serious business setback or, in a worst-case situation, long-term competitive damage. Ensuing proper cloud use is essential in today’s high-stakes, fast-paced business environment.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Enterprise Enterprise 325

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.

Strategy 351

Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 351

Network World

JUNE 3, 2024

Singapore’s Green Data Centre Roadmap , announced on Thursday, seeks to make the hardware and even the software running in datacenters more energy efficient, in addition to tackling the usual suspects: the energy consumed by non-IT components such as cooling, lighting, and power distribution within data centers.

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Data Center Energy Government Data 435

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. Companies that not only survived but thrived amidst the myriad business challenges show why cloud-first application deployment is a critical component of a retooled IT strategy.

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Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 347

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

The future is in the cloud, driven by software and with a limited need for physical hardware. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, and it’s what we tell our clients at NTT daily as we help them make the transition from hardware to software-defined infrastructure (SDI).

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Licensing Hardware Software Software 241

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Fewer than 11% of enterprises in APAC today use a single cloud. Instead, organizations are settling on multi-cloud, hybrid strategy with interoperability between cloud providers. New challenges from increased cloud adoption & technology. Avoiding cloud pitfalls. Owned hardware assets. Software licenses.

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Cloud Devops Data Center Strategy 245

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Without access to the expertise and insights you need to manage fast-evolving hardware and software infrastructure as efficiently as possible, it can be an uphill battle to keep the lights on – even before you embark on new initiatives. Company infrastructure ranges from on-premises to the cloud or a hybrid approach.

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Hardware Licensing Software Software 290

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

“We’re getting back into this frenetic spend mode that we saw in the early days of cloud,” observed James Greenfield, vice president of AWS Commerce Platform, at the FinOps X conference in San Diego in June. We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

Fractional CTO 340

Fractional CTO Open Source Cloud Energy 340

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Fewer than 11% of enterprises in APAC today use a single cloud. Instead, organizations are settling on multi-cloud, hybrid strategy with interoperability between cloud providers. New challenges from increased cloud adoption & technology. Avoiding cloud pitfalls. Owned hardware assets. Software licenses.

Cloud 235

Cloud Devops Data Center Strategy 235

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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.

Oracle 130

Oracle Open Source Licensing Enterprise 130

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Customers that paid for older perpetual licenses can continue to use the older vSphere versions they purchased, he said.

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Data Center 299

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 328

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.” billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.

Data Center 246

Data Center Cloud Data Network 246

Network World

JULY 1, 2024

Nutanix has pivoted from selling rigid, preconfigured appliances to offering enterprise customers a flexible, software-defined platform for managing hybrid, multi-cloud environments. “As Nutanix’s HCI solution enables the movement of apps and data from on-prem to multiple clouds – seamlessly, securely and easily.”

Vmware 282

Vmware Dell Cloud Licensing 282

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

And the licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible. Flexible licensing programs that allow organizations to pay by usage have emerged as a solution to this challenge. Additionally, look for flexible licensing programs that offer a wide portfolio of solutions and services rather than one or two.

Licensing 130

Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The CIO of a regulatory agency that reports to the US Securities and Exchange Commission — one of the biggest cloud consumers in the world — has made it his mission to help other CIOs — and Amazon Web Services itself — improve cloud computing. But for two years, we were testing limits within the public cloud.”

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Cloud Data Center Web Services Data 264

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. Mike Morton, VP of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, is urging Dynamics GP customers to move from the on premises product to cloud-based Business Central, and provided an overview of the process.

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SAP Oracle Microsoft Cloud 325

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

Liberty Mutual is one of the most experienced and advanced cloud adopters in the nation. And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion.

Cloud 246

Cloud Insurance Applications Data 246

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

Cloud 186

Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places. Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia.

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Licensing Microsoft SMB Small Business 130

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. Ellison says the offering, dubbed Oracle Database@Azure, will help many of its customers fully migrate from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.

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Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 279

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

28, Morgan Stanley Analyst Keith Weiss noted that with Salesforce promising big productivity gains from AI agents — deflecting up to 90% of calls from human agents — investors are worried that Salesforce customers will need to license fewer seats. During the CRM giant’s 2QFY25 earnings call on Aug.

Business Transformation 326

Business Transformation Licensing Hardware Data 326

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

Beware the cloud-first playbook Hyperscalers are scaling out with the assumption that the majority of people will consume their LLMs and applications on their infrastructure and pay for ancillary services (private models, or other sandboxes boasting security and governance).

Data 306

Data Dell Open Source Applications 306

CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

From an enterprise IT standpoint, their championing of the Android operating system has earned them a place in the mobility domain, and their Google Apps offering helped show many businesses that the cloud can work for office automation. But the majority of their business is still today selling advertisements.

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Google Cloud Advertising Operating Systems 150

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Check in on those cloud costs “Highly scalable technology combined with increasing use and increasing costs leads to runaway spending,” says Mark Troller, CIO at telecom expense management company Tangoe, which estimates that its clients overspend on cloud by as much as 40%.

Fractional CTO 347

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 347

The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud for the first time ever. New Mac mini instances will be available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), allowing developers to create apps for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more all on AWS. Amazon is using Apple’s Intel-powered Mac mini computers for its cloud version of macOS.

Cloud 144

Cloud Licensing Intel Apple 144