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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. Theyre still the Lamborghini.

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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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VergeIO enhances VergeFabric network virtualization offering

Network World

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. VergeIO is not a startup; the company was founded in 2010 and hasnt made huge waves in the market. VergeFabric is one of those integrated elements.

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Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

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

Network World

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.”

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Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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