Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

New data from research firm Gartner might give IT leaders pause, however, as analysts detail the long, costly, and risky road ahead for enterprise organizations considering a large-scale VMware migration. Enterprise customers have questions about VMwares future direction , licensing changes, and product roadmap following Broadcoms takeover.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With tight IT budgets getting tighter, many Oracle licensees with Unlimited Licensing Agreements (ULAs) are tempted to consider an exit plan to avoid the pinch of rising support costs. Most enterprises want to avoid expending unnecessary time, effort, and resources on licensing issues, so they can focus on maximizing value and results.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life. 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.,

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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.

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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.

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Network World

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Arista Networks is adding new features to its campus networking portfolio to help enterprise customers more easily group and manage switches. Third, when customers are using third-party tools, such as SolarWinds for SNMP management, they are licensed via IP address.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Coming up: VMware Explore Barcelona, Fira Gran Via November 4-7, 2024 VMware Explore 2024 attendees saw an emphasis on private AI and cloud repatriation as key strategies for enterprises. Despite the interest in private, the cloud migration is still a hot topic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2028, 40% of large enterprises will deploy AI to manipulate and measure employee mood and behaviors, all in the name of profit. “AI By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

The average large enterprise lost $104 million to digital inefficiencies in 2024, driven by productivity losses connected to employee IT frustrations and hundreds of ghost apps flying under the radar, according to a new study. Meanwhile, many enterprise employees turn to unauthorized apps and software to do their jobs, the study says.

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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. Enterprises are better off being model agnostic. And if its used in an app or service with more than 700 million monthly users, a special license from Meta is required. There are plenty of good licenses out there.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For more and more enterprises, it’s an application you run in house. Of 292 enterprises who’ve commented to me on AI plans, 164 say that they believe their real AI benefits will accrue from self-hosting AI, not from public generative services. That doesn’t mean you’ve given up on AI, just that you’ve faced reality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Each product comes with its own licensing model, metering system, graphical user interface (GUI), and operational workflow. Extreme Networks has introduced Extreme Platform ONE, a platform that reduces the complexity for enterprises by seamlessly integrating AI-powered automation, networking, and security.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return on any enterprise software investment.

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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. 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.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

VMware customer concerns linger : 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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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2022

Cloud adoption might have the effect of consolidating IT by bringing a host of interactions on to a single platform and shift the cost of running IT from CapEx spending to OpEx, but there is the potential for it to cause licensing “bill shock.” Introducing Cloud Navigator portal. Introducing Cloud Navigator portal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Consulting firm PwC announced Wednesday that it is accelerating its adoption of generative AI in the US and UK through an agreement with OpenAI that it said makes it both the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise and the product’s largest user.

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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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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

of Nvidia’s enterprise-spanning AI software platform will feature a smorgasbord of microservices designed to speed app development and provide quick ways to ramp up deployments, the company announced today at its GPU Technology Conference. A host of further integrations is also coming to AI Enterprise 5.0, Nvidia’s AI Enterprise 5.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. He pointed to the continued market dominance of AWS as one proof point.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Juniper Networks is offering education programs and pricing incentives to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI-based technologies. 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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Programming Education Data Center Licensing 397

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

But it doesn’t have to be that way because enterprise content management systems have made great strides in that same timeframe, including with new artificial intelligence technology that makes it far easier for employees to find and make the best use of all the content the organization owns, no matter if it’s text, audio, or video.

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Enterprise Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Analysis 335

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. A cloud-first enterprise applications strategy helps make data more accessible to distributed users and workflows, he says.

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Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 347

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. operator of 28 hotel and casino properties across the US, was negotiating a fresh enterprise agreement with VMware prior to its acquisition, reported The Register.

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Vmware Hotels Cloud Strategy 312

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 Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects. The key message was, ‘Pace yourself.’”

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Data Center Artificial Intelligence Software Software 334

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Today, it serves a who’s who of private and public sector enterprises in the United Kingdom, including companies in highly regulated industries like financial services and healthcare, across fields like charity, construction, education, hospitality, manufacturing, media, retail, technology and travel, and core government agencies.

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Enterprise Enterprise Vmware Disaster Recovery 289

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2022

What is enterprise service management? Enterprise service management (ESM) is the practice of applying IT service management (ITSM) principles and capabilities to improve service delivery in non-IT parts of an organizations, including human resources, legal, marketing, facilities, and sales. Benefits of enterprise service management.

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Enterprise Enterprise System How To 312

Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

Arista Networks has added load balancing and AI job-centric observability features to core software products in an effort to help enterprise customers grow and effectively manage AI networked environments. CV UNO is a licensed component of Aristas CloudVision as-a-service platform.

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Load Balancer Network Enterprise Enterprise 195

Forrester IT

APRIL 10, 2023

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription.

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Licensing Oracle Company Vendor Management 195

Network World

MAY 20, 2024

Nearly 74% of IT organizations are at least somewhat likely to replace a network management tool over the next two years, according to new research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “I First, tool vendors sold them with perpetual licenses, which meant a long-term investment. But things have changed.

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Tools Network Licensing WAN 488

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

Together, they create an infrastructure leader uniquely qualified to guide enterprises through every facet of their private, hybrid, and multi-cloud journeys. VMware Cloud Foundation – The Cloud Stack VCF provides enterprises with everything they need to excel in the cloud.

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