Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

If SoftBank successfully steers its portfolio companies toward Ampere processors, it could accelerate the shift away from x86 architecture in data centers worldwide. Amperes high-performance Arm-based CPUs for data centers fit into SoftBanks vision of creating a cohesive ecosystem spanning data center and AI sectors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24

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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 14, 2025

The company, known for licensing its chip designs to industry heavyweights like Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, is now stepping directly into the silicon market, a move that could put it in direct competition with the very customers it once served.

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Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In a move aimed at facilitating the global development and supply of artificial intelligence (AI), the US Commerce Department has brought a new policy that will ease export restrictions for advanced AI chips to data centers in the Middle East and Central Asia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Chatbot Arena ranks more than 160 top models both proprietary and open source and lists their licenses. Llama helps with sales support, coding Deloittes Sarer recently worked with a data center technology company that was looking for gen AI to help transform both the front and back office. Too many to choose from?

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Discover how to extend the life of your databases, improve ROI, and fund innovation with support savings: Learn more about Rimini Street services and support for Oracle Database Data Center Management, IT Leadership

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Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Customer concerns loom as VMware Explore event approaches Aug 19, 2024: Enterprise customers have questions about VMware’s future direction , licensing changes, and product roadmap following Broadcom’s takeover. Customers want to continue to see innovation across the VMware portfolio, says one analyst.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

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. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in. Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog.

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

S/4HANA On-Premise With SAP S/4HANA On-Premise, the customer manages the S/4HANA system, the HANA database, applications, data center, operating systems, middleware, and network on-premises. Functions contained in the so-called Digital Core, SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management, are licensed per user.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Formerly relegated to offshore hosting, online gambling is a huge potential boost for Las Vegas data centers. colocation Las Vegas Regulation'

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

ARM, which licenses chip architecture to multiple companies, especially in the mobile phone market, is making a move into the networking and server areas of the data center. In this video, Data Center Knowledge spoke with Lakshmi Mandyam, Director, Server Systems & Ecosystems, ARM, about ARM.

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Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

Thats been apparent since the companys acquisition of virtualization software vendor VMware, where licensing prices have leapt upwards although many customers have little choice but to continue to pay the spiralling prices. Broadcoms statement quoted CEO Hock Tan as arguing that the buyback is from a position of strength.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

Were looking more at SaaS and PaaS, and our enterprise technology organization is trying to utilize some of the same principles for our on-premises data centers. Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments.

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Network World

JULY 25, 2024

And if it was the extra little bit of runway perpetual license holdouts needed in order to move to VCF, why not get some good press about it rather than including it as a ‘standard concession’ on every deal they are inking and signing over the next 12 months?” Single sign-on across all VSF product components.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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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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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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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 25, 2013

ARM secures new processor licensing agreements with IBM and Chinese semiconductor provider Spreadtrum to continue its worldwide growth in network and communications markets. IBM Networking arm spreadtrum'

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLellan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Microsoft invests $15 million in Foursquare and licenses location data, and Google and Cisco agree to a broad cross-licensing agreement to avoid unnecessary patent lawsuits. Cisco Google Microsoft foursquare'

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. Competitors are claiming some success in attracting VM defectors , though analysts aren’t reporting widespread migrations. VMware customers would be wise to have an exit plan.”

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Microsoft’s cloud business is under surveillance in Europe: The association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has set up new monitoring body to ensure the tech giant complies with a legal settlement to keep cloud licensing practices fair in the region.

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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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Network World

JULY 8, 2024

“In April, we also partnered with Tesla to apply their Megapack energy storage technology at our intelligent computing center,” Yan Gang, technical director of Yovole Network, a Shanghai-based cloud computing data center service provider, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

These changes were designed to lead to an integrated VCF solution that will bring broader long-term benefits to our valued customers both in their own data centers and in the cloud with increased portability to move workloads among on-premise data centers and supported cloud providers.

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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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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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