Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Red Hat intends to democratize the power of AI through open-source-licensed models that can run anywhere. Its expertise in large language models along with Red Hat’s ability to support these models across the hybrid cloud aligns with Red Hat’s stated goal of making gen AI more accessible to more organizations.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Read our related feature: Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty ) However, if youre looking strictly for a replacement on-prem virtualization platform, the analyst firm Data Center Intelligence Group ( DCIG ) has identified five top alternatives to VMwares vSphere platform.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We provide enterprises with one platform they can rely on to holistically address their IT needs today and in the future and augment it with an extensive portfolio of managed services – all available through a single pane of glass. And throughout all of this, we enable them to draw on the VMware assets they know and trust.“

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

S/4HANA is SAPs latest iteration of its flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. As an alternative, SAP offers theHANA Enterprise Cloud(HEC). This transformation takes place in three steps: redesigning processes, technical migration, and building the intelligent enterprise. What is S/4HANA?

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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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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

In technology licensing where an entity is both provider and competitor, boundaries are typically well-defined without special preferences beyond potential first-mover advantages, Kawoosa explained. For enterprise customers, the consolidation raises both opportunities and concerns.

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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

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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Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

Looking at the announcement of Broadcomms buyback plan , Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, said this is consistent with Broadcoms historic strategy and holds no good news for enterprise IT leaders. They shouldnt expect any relief coming their way soon commercially, Bickley said.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

All UK businesses and organizations that bought licenses for Windows Server via Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud may have been overcharged and will be represented in this new ‘opt-out’ collective action,” the law firm statement said. “I The lawsuit is seeking more than £1 billion (roughly US$1.3 Kimball asked.

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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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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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Network World

APRIL 17, 2025

That changed in February 2024 after VMware was acquired by Broadcom and it proceeded to transition and perpetual licensing and migrate to a subscription model, a decision that went over very poorly. Broadcom didnt exactly promote the news of the return, either. It was simply a line in the release notes for version 8.0 Update 3e of ESXi.

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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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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

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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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

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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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.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

The dispute revolved around the question of how users who access SAP via third-party software should be licensed. Users argued that by purchasing SAP Process Integration (PI), they had acquired a kind of gatekeeper license to access information in the SAP system. After all, no SAP functionality was replicated externally.

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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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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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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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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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