CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

Groups 328

Groups Open Source Licensing Social 328

Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Major software companies employ teams of full-time workers to write and contribute code to open source projects. Even end user companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Capital One, etc., Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life.

Licensing 433

Licensing Open Source Enterprise Enterprise 433

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2024

Seven companies that license music, images, videos, and other data used for training artificial intelligence systems have formed a trade association to promote responsible and ethical licensing of intellectual property. The situation could become even more complex for multinational companies.

Licensing 320

Licensing Training Data Artificial Intelligence 320

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

SaaS billing, in contrast to conventional on-premises software licenses, frequently entails intricate, consumption-based pricing, which makes cost control more challenging. FinOps procedures and ITAM tools should work together to guarantee ongoing SaaS license management and monitoring.

Licensing 289

Licensing Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 289

Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

SoftBanks announcement suggests Ampere will collaborate with other SBG companies, potentially creating a powerful ecosystem of Arm-based computing solutions. This collaboration could extend to SoftBanks numerous portfolio companies, including Korean/Japanese web giant LY Corp, ByteDance (TikToks parent company), and various AI startups.

Data Center 270

Data Center Architecture Licensing Energy 270

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own.

Licensing 312

Licensing Data Center Vmware Data 312

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

The software company is making it virtually impossible for its customers to work with non-SAP process mining solutions. The following year, the Munich-based company participated in SAPs Startup Focus program the starting point of a long-term business relationship between SAP and Celonis. Celonis was launched in 2011.

SAP 240

SAP Data Licensing Software 240

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). These companies and the association had alleged to the Commission that some of the companies practices in the EU were anti-competitive in nature.

Licensing 272

Licensing Microsoft Cloud Web Services 272

IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Almost a year after Reddit made difficult changes to monetize its data at the expense of losing some important users, the company reportedly secured a $60 million deal. Content licensing deal for AI training is thus the new business model on the block.

Licensing 264

Licensing Advertising Training Report 264

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

That may change as telecommunications companies such as Airtel and MTN jump into the mobile money market, after recently receiving licenses to do so. Nigeria’s mobile money landscape, however, has been dominated by banks and other financial services companies. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

Licensing 278

Licensing Financial Mobile Banking 278

Information Week

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The newspaper says the company uses its writing without permission, according to a Wall Street Journal report -- as other media companies forge lucrative deals with AI companies to license copyrighted material.

Journal 468

Journal Licensing Media Report 468

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

Licensing 246

Licensing Software Software Microsoft 246

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Some delayed decisions by relying on existing VMware licenses, while others explored alternatives or ran redundancies to compare options. I do recognize some companies are probably easier than ours to go ahead and do the migration. It took about 18 months. It’s not something you just flip off a switch and you’re done. You need to plan.

Vmware 312

Vmware Hotels Cloud Strategy 312

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Clockwise from top left: Privacy License founder Nabanita De; Mvue founder Payal Tiwana; Saturday founder Michelle Howe; and Pansophy founder Anshu Dwibhashi. This time we’re featuring companies building products in privacy, fintech, knowledge search, and wellness. The app has more than 13,000 users and charges $5.99

Company 117

Company Licensing B2B Nonprofit 117

Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The conference, the first after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, highlighted the growing trend of companies bringing workloads back from public clouds to on-premises environments. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov. 1, 2024: V Mware increased the vSAN capacity in vSphere Foundation by 2.5x

Vmware 369

Vmware Conference Cloud Enterprise 369

Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

VMware’s origins To understand Baguley’s career at the company, you have to look back 13 years and six months. With that picture in mind, the company has grown from “a small company” to the giant it is today, “an organization within a much larger one,” Baguley said. For him, the journey to the present has been “very exciting.”

CTO 395

CTO Vmware Cloud Storage 395

GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2025

(Redfin Photo) Rocket Companies agreed to acquire Seattle-based Redfin in a $1.75 “Rocket and Redfin have a unified vision of a better way to buy and sell homes,” Rocket Companies CEOVarun Krishna said in a statement. The company cut 450 employees after announcing a recent licensing deal with Zillow Group.

Real Estate 111

Real Estate Company .Net Financial 111

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas. By 2028, 30% of S&P companies will use GenAI labeling, such as “xxGPT,” to reshape their branding while chasing new revenue.

Energy 338

Energy Healthcare Enterprise Enterprise 338

Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This move could simplify the shipment process for US companies by allowing foreign data centers to apply for special status, avoiding the need for individual export licenses. Earlier, the US exporters were required to obtain individual licenses to export such chips to “countries of concern.”

Data Center 397

Data Center Licensing Programming Artificial Intelligence 397

Network World

JULY 11, 2024

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay $22 million to settle an antitrust complaint with a group representing cloud computing companies in Europe. A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem.

Microsoft 398

Microsoft Cloud Licensing Google 398

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 We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says.

Data Center 334

Data Center Artificial Intelligence Software Software 334

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Our internal rallying cry for the team is “Own Your Stride,” which means owning business outcomes, the technology we employ, and growth — both for the individual and the company. was also important to help our executive team and board understand the “why” for the company, team, and individual. How did you achieve this integration?

Company 298

Company Retail Strategy CTO Hire 298

Network World

MAY 20, 2024

First, tool vendors sold them with perpetual licenses, which meant a long-term investment. Second, tools could take time to implement, especially for larger companies that invest months of time customizing data collection mechanisms, dashboards, alerts, and more. But things have changed.

Tools 488

Tools Network Licensing WAN 488

Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Discontent over VMware licensing changes and shifts to the partner program has sent customers looking elsewhere, and at least two competitors say they are benefiting from the discord in the form of increased sales. The number of new customers and new partners doubled compared to the same period last year. “…we

Vmware 460

Vmware Licensing Hotels Virtualization 460

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.

Vmware 299

Vmware Licensing Virtualization Data Center 299

Network World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The filing alleged that AT&T’s lawsuit is an attempt to secure more time to transition to other software while still receiving discounted support services, which Broadcom has already phased out for perpetual license holders. AT&T and Broadcom did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Vmware 369

Vmware Licensing Software Software 369

Network World

MAY 24, 2024

These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.

Cloud 419

Cloud Licensing Artificial Intelligence Survey 419

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

While the conference promises to showcase the combined strengths of both companies, concerns over pricing, licensing and the direction of VMware products are likely to dominate discussions. Overarching concerns regarding the impact of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware still abound.

Vmware 436

Vmware Conference Data Center Licensing 436

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Streamlined licensing is another component of the Blueprint. “To Disparate licenses, varied terms, and unpredictable costs can hinder operational efficiency and become a significant burden,” wrote Mathias Kokot, vice president of cloud-ready data center at Juniper, in a blog about licensing. “To

Education 398

Education Programming Data Center Licensing 398

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The company started piloting a gen AI Assistant roughly 18 months ago that is now available to 90,000 employees globally, Beswick says, noting that the assistant now runs about 2 million requests per month. It’s our own version of Copilot, effectively,” Beswick says, explaining the other core advantage of the company’s standards approach.

Insurance 305

Insurance Data Center Training Data 305

Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. In an AP survey of S&P 500 companies, only 25 of 341 CEOs were women. The Women in Tech organization reports that 17% of tech companies have a woman CEO, and only 25% of all C-suite jobs are held by women. Several went out and started their own company. Only 10.4%

Network 318

Network Industry Oracle Education 318

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Gartner folks are right in saying that there is continued inflation with IT costs on things such as storage, so companies are paying more for essentially the same storage this year than they were the year prior. Vendors are cranking up prices across the board, forcing companies to be sharper with their budgets, he says.

Budget 290

Budget Cloud Energy Storage 290

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Today, as CEO of SaaS provider DoubleCheck, he feels the push and pull between what his customers pay, and forecasting how thatll affect the companys CSP charges on the back end.

Cloud 300

Cloud Tools Engineering Financial 300

Network World

JULY 9, 2024

In 2023, the four-year-old startup was added to the US Entities List, largely preventing it from obtaining American technologies without a special license. Last year, the company introduced its MTT S4000 chips, featuring 128 Tensor Cores, 48GB of VRAM, and a high-speed memory bandwidth of 768GBps.

Data Center 436

Data Center Data Licensing Research 436

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Companies are already very familiar with using open source code. As a result of all this experience, companies should know what to do to make sure they’re using properly-licensed code, how to check for vulnerabilities, and how to keep everything patched and up-to-date. Take the Llama license, for example.

Open Source 342

Open Source Licensing Training Enterprise 342

Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

companies listed more than 77,000 job openings in December for AI occupations or jobs that require AI skills. Available now, CompTIA AI Essentials costs $129 and includes a license that would be valid for 12 months. CompTIA plans to release additional courses focused on business and soft skills developments in the coming weeks.

Training 195

Training Resources Artificial Intelligence Programming 195