Network World

JULY 9, 2024

Chinese GPU startup Moore Threads has announced an upgrade to its KUAE AI data center solution, boosting the number of GPUs connectable in a single computing cluster to 10,000. 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.

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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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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources. Since November of 2023, the normal number one customer were attracting right now is guys that have had a heart attack when they got their VMware renewal license, Crump said.

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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. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

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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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Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

The Court found that these parties had conspired to breach Winsopias license agreement in a deliberate, systematic and intentionally hidden effort to unlawfully reverse engineer critical IBM mainframe technology. IBM licensed its mainframe software to Winsopia beginning in 2013, according to the court documents.

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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. Streamlined licensing is another component of the Blueprint. “To Other AI classes teach skills that can lead to certifications to accelerate AI career and business opportunities.

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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.” The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“We look at every business individually and guide them through the entire process from planning to predicting costs – something made far easier by our straightforward pricing model – to the migration of systems and data, the modernization and optimization of new cloud investments, and their protection and ideal management long-term,” he says. “We

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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. The capital cost of the new VMWare licensing is but a small part of the overall project.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 21, 2017

Its licensing framework is one of the key differences between LinkedIn’s data center tech foundation and OCP. Read More.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She joined Okta as CIO in 2020, and left Okta for her current role at F5 in January 2025, where she is tasked with building a data- and AI-first enterprise. When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. >

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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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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Cisco and Juniper (whose acquisition by HPE seems on track) have both announced intentions to focus more on AI in the enterprise data center. The AI model providers (with one exception noted below) are also eager to promote licensing of their generative AI tools. Then you can start doing data center planning.”

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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.

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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. We’re trying to hasten that process to make it easier for customers to actually move their entire data center workload into the cloud.”

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Network World

JULY 31, 2024

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. Inception In its legal filing, Amazon painted itself as having all but created cloud computing.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Vijay Bhagavath, IDC research vice president for cloud and data center networks, cautions against overreacting. Gartner analyst Jon Forest adds, “They want to be much more than a networking company as far as selling boxes and licensing software. Can it catch the next wave of AI and generative AI, or will it be left behind?

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Network World

JULY 1, 2024

The deals are aimed at enabling customers to gain the benefits of Nutanix’s cloud platform without having to swap out the underlying server hardware or change server vendors. He adds that the real impact will be seen over time as VMware software licenses expire. The Nutanix offerings seem to be resonating with customers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

By understanding their options and leveraging GPU-as-a-service, CIOs can optimize genAI hardware costs and maintain processing power for innovation.” Other CIOs are enjoying the cost-saving benefits of their enterprise license agreements with major cloud and AI providers such as Microsoft, Google, and AWS. “We

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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. Furthermore, there are some strictures emplaced by HCI vendors that limit the flavour of hypervisor or constrain hardware choices to approved kits. The latter trend is demand-led.

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CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Recent studies indicate that data centers consume one percent of the world’s electricity , and The Royal Society estimates that digital technology contributes up to 5.9% Up to 25% of data center power is consumed by equipment that no longer performs useful work, [i] and only 10-30% of server capacity is used.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Business data hosted on Box, Cloudera, Cohesity, Datastax and the like can be used in AI applications as of version 5.0, and Nvidia-powered hardware can be found in servers and PCs from most major vendors, including Dell, HPE and Lenovo. Nvidia’s AI Enterprise 5.0 Containers, Generative AI, Microservices, Nvidia

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 26, 2015

As online video replaces cable TV and cloud services replace software licenses and hardware boxes, the makeup of the internet changes too Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. “People better understand the charges, and [they] better negotiate costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

There is no longer one or two company data centers where servers, applications and physical infrastructure can be easily tracked and administered. However, there are a number of key pitfalls that organisations in the Asia Pacific region frequently grapple with: Being tied to company-operated data centers.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. It provides consulting and product and solution support services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

There is no longer one or two company data centers where servers, applications and physical infrastructure can be easily tracked and administered. However, there are a number of key pitfalls that organisations in the Asia Pacific region frequently grapple with: Being tied to company-operated data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

VMware Cloud Foundation is a refreshed strategy that offers IBM and VMware clients the ability to bring multiple offerings and licenses to IBM Cloud. Clients can leverage thousands of hardware profiles and storage options without having to re-architect their existing applications, allowing for control of their data and where it resides. “But

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. N Apps that are inherently bound to hardware Such as physical instances of software for specific (e.g. high-performance) hardware, or physical instances remaining so for scale-out reasons. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

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Network World

AUGUST 19, 2024

Will Broadcom raise prices, introduce new licensing models, or rationalize products? However, when it comes to replacement options that meet technology, security, scale, hardware support, skills, and process integration requirements [and considering] the total cost to migrate, the conversations often change to a renewal strategy.”

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 9, 2016

Learn how scaling of customized IT infrastructure for a hosting organization in a multi-tenant environment benefits from flexibility of modern storage, unified management, and elastic hardware licensing.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CIOs know that making more data available will be a clear game-changer. So what kind of data are we talking about? Companies can use data—produced by shop-floor scanners and other hardware tools—to more accurately measure and improve the performance of production-line machinery. What All Of This Means For You.

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