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.

Vmware 337

Vmware Virtualization Quality Assurance Licensing 337

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

Vmware 214

Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 214

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Assess hardware compatibility Hardware refresh requires careful planning and sufficient lead time.

Windows 289

Windows Licensing Hardware Training 289

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Expectations about the power of gen AI are falling , but many organizations will still increase their spending on AI projects or hardware. Cloud services, software licenses, hardware everythings creeping up, he says. Any technology thats going to change the world does have to pass through the trough, Lovelock says.

Budget 290

Budget Cloud Energy Storage 290

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. The more of the stack you own, the better our story becomes.

Virtualization 195

Virtualization Network Vmware Data Center 195

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.

Vmware 287

Vmware Comparison Virtualization Disaster Recovery 287

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. growth in device spending.

Data Center 334

Data Center Artificial Intelligence Software Software 334

Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

CV UNO is a licensed component of Aristas CloudVision as-a-service platform. Updates to Arista CloudVision platform To help enterprises manage AI and networking environments, Arista added AI job-centric observability for greater troubleshooting to its CloudVision Universal Network Observability (CV UNO) system.

Load Balancer 222

Load Balancer Network Enterprise Enterprise 222

Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

Nvidia will licensing the innovations created to its partners and customers with the goal of scaling this model. Nvidias partner ecosystem includes TSMC, which provides advanced chip fabrication and 3D chip stacking to integrate silicon photonics into Nvidias hardware. Hundreds of patents were also included.

Data Center 222

Data Center Data Network 3D 222

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Streamlined licensing is another component of the Blueprint. “To Disparate licenses, varied terms, and unpredictable costs can hinder operational efficiency and become a significant burden,” wrote Mathias Kokot, vice president of cloud-ready data center at Juniper, in a blog about licensing. “To

Education 398

Education Programming Data Center Licensing 398

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.

Software 328

Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 328

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

The future is in the cloud, driven by software and with a limited need for physical hardware. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, and it’s what we tell our clients at NTT daily as we help them make the transition from hardware to software-defined infrastructure (SDI).

Licensing 241

Licensing Hardware Software Software 241

Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Explosive growth in cloud applications has depressed software license sales, and cloud platforms have upended the traditional on-premises server and storage market. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services. Read more.

Cloud 322

Cloud Web Services Licensing Storage 322

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Without access to the expertise and insights you need to manage fast-evolving hardware and software infrastructure as efficiently as possible, it can be an uphill battle to keep the lights on – even before you embark on new initiatives. And hardware cannot simply be replaced with software-driven infrastructure or hardware as a service.

Hardware 290

Hardware Licensing Software Software 290

Network World

JUNE 3, 2024

Singapore’s Green Data Centre Roadmap , announced on Thursday, seeks to make the hardware and even the software running in datacenters more energy efficient, in addition to tackling the usual suspects: the energy consumed by non-IT components such as cooling, lighting, and power distribution within data centers.

Data Center 436

Data Center Energy Government Data 436

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.

Vmware 299

Vmware Licensing Virtualization Data Center 299

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.

Licensing 130

Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 130

Network World

JULY 9, 2024

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. The announcement comes amid ongoing US restrictions on China, which have significantly affected Moore Threads.

Data Center 436

Data Center Data Licensing Research 436

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We also offer flexible month-to-month bridge licensing options for existing hardware, giving customers time to make informed long-term decisions for their business. And throughout all of this, we enable them to draw on the VMware assets they know and trust.“

System 264

System Enterprise Enterprise Vmware 264

IT Toolbox

JUNE 21, 2024

Qualcomm has reached a $75 million settlement in a lawsuit with its shareholders, alleging misleading licensing and sales practices that artificially inflated share values. The post Qualcomm Settles Sales and Licensing Lawsuit With $75 Mn Payment appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

Licensing 130

Licensing Business Intelligence Hardware 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Theres still enough spending by enterprises on servers, licensed software, and the skill sets they need to maintain and operate the environment that currently exists. The enterprise data center is here to stay.

Data Center 324

Data Center Enterprise Enterprise Data 324

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gone are the days when companies used a single database and had a straightforward cost structure, including hardware and software costs and number of users. Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source.

Oracle 130

Oracle Open Source Licensing Enterprise 130

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places. Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia.

Licensing 130

Licensing Microsoft SMB Small Business 130

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

tournament scene, Nintendo of America has announced a new partnership that will see the debut of the first officially-licensed Smash tournament series. We've partnered with @PandaGlobal to launch the first officially licensed Super Smash Bros. After years of being indifferent at best to the Super Smash Bros. ” Confirmed.

Licensing 142

Licensing Comparison Travel Hardware 142

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

28, Morgan Stanley Analyst Keith Weiss noted that with Salesforce promising big productivity gains from AI agents — deflecting up to 90% of calls from human agents — investors are worried that Salesforce customers will need to license fewer seats. During the CRM giant’s 2QFY25 earnings call on Aug.

Business Transformation 326

Business Transformation Licensing Hardware Data 326

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.

Vmware 282

Vmware Dell Cloud Licensing 282

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

Fractional CTO 340

Fractional CTO Open Source Cloud Energy 340

IT Toolbox

MARCH 19, 2024

Apple is reportedly discussing licensing Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine for new iPhone models. Learn more about the negotiations and the deal’s implications for the AI sector. The post Apple in Discussions With Google To Integrate Gemini AI Into iPhones appeared first on Spiceworks.

Apple 284

Apple Artificial Intelligence Google Licensing 284

Network World

MAY 23, 2024

Some open-source supporters have been upset about license changes and other shifts that contaminate the original value proposition, but the biggest contributor to that pollution may be buyer/user behavior. Who backs a mixture of chips, generic hardware, and a couple layers of open-source software?

Open Source 398

Open Source Enterprise Enterprise Network 398

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. Unlike on premises PeopleSoft systems, there is no hardware to purchase or maintain,” the FAQ noted. Customers have had plenty of warnings about the product’s retirement.

SAP 325

SAP Oracle Microsoft Cloud 325

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Dell devices integrated with license plate readers have already read more than 10 million license plates and identified 3% of them as concerns,” says Gladys Gonzalez, IT director for the City of Doral. From Florida to Belgium, governments share the impact of their smart city initiatives. Doral City, Florida Improves Quality of Life.

Dell 363

Dell Artificial Intelligence Intel Energy 363

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

has expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with the introduction of two new algorithms designed for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency: Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal. Both Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini are licensed under the MIT license and will be made available through Hugging Face , allowing for commercial use.

Microsoft 74

Microsoft Licensing Hardware Open Source 74

Anoop

JANUARY 5, 2021

The ConfigMgr asset intelligence reports provide information about hardware, license management, and software. Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates.

Report 177

Report Licensing Hardware Software 177

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Oracle is collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

Oracle 279

Oracle Microsoft Data Center Licensing 279

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8

HP 264

HP Software Software Licensing 264

Tech Republic

MAY 16, 2022

This really cool laptop monitor also comes with a lifetime Microsoft license for Mac. The post Work from anywhere seamlessly with this dual laptop monitor and lifetime Microsoft license for Mac appeared first on TechRepublic. With this bundle, you'll be set to go wherever you want.

Licensing 98

Licensing Microsoft Hardware Software 98

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.”

Vmware 414

Vmware Survey Research Strategy 414