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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

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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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. 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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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs

Forrester IT

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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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. We also review SLA with our end users and service providers, and implement policies and other customer measures based on license agreements and the capabilities of the providers,” he says.

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