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How to mitigate software licensing surprises

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s unsurprising to see legacy providers shifting their business models from perpetual software licensing to subscription-based pricing. This past year has been rife with complaints over a substantial licensing change by Citrix after it was acquired by private equity firms and merged with TIBCO Software.

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CISPE raises red alert over Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes

Network World

The European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), a monitoring body established by the association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) as a way to keep cloud licensing practices fair in the region, this week came down hard on Broadcom for its failure to do so.

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Stratoshark brings Wireshark-style analysis to cloud system calls

Network World

In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. Why Stratoshark matters for cloud operations There are many different ways to get visibility into the cloud today.

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FTC opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s cloud, AI, and cybersecurity practices

Network World

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses. The inquiry follows over a year of informal interviews with competitors and business partners, Bloomberg reported.

Cloud 413
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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

4-7 with a new portfolio of solutions and an emphasis on its flagship private cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). That’s where we came up with this vision: people would build private clouds with fully software-defined networks, storage and computing. When it comes to building private clouds , we are the first.

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Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points

Network World

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. With it customers can purchase our new unified licenses (Cisco Wireless Essentials or Advantage) in a Cisco Networking Subscription.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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