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 We’re consistently evaluating our technology needs to ensure our platforms are efficient, secure, and scalable,” he says.

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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. Many of those tools are now bundled together in the new vSphere product line.

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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. Other considerations include security, privacy, performance, management, and governance, she adds. The enterprise data center is here to stay. The answer: It depends.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. And there could be ancillary costs, such as the need for additional server hardware or data storage capacity.

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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).

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Security patches will continue to be provided for another 18 months, until April 30, 2031. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Because the safety and security that Doral residents experience are key to their quality of life, the initiative emphasizes security measures, which have intense data gathering and processing workloads. The lighting can be adjusted for a range of situations via remote operation or sensors, helping to improve security.

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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.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

More importantly, it creates revenue-generating opportunities across a variety of fast-growing markets: security, observability , data analytics, AIOps, and genAI. Gartner analyst Jon Forest adds, “They want to be much more than a networking company as far as selling boxes and licensing software. They have the integration playbook.”

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. > Not many security vendors from the 1980s are still around, but Trend Micro is a survivor. Fun fact: She is a licensed English-as-a-Second Language teacher.

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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. June 2015: Hewlett-Packard Co. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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Network World

JULY 1, 2024

Nutanix’s HCI solution enables the movement of apps and data from on-prem to multiple clouds – seamlessly, securely and easily.” 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.

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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

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

And while LLM providers are hoping you choose their platforms and applications, it’s worth asking yourself whether this is the wisest course of action as you seek to keep costs down while preserving security and governance for your data and platforms. Can you blame them? Of course, GenAI can also help with that.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

However, with many mission-critical workloads spread out across hybrid environments, including on-premises and in multiple clouds, this can present hurdles around where data lives, how it’s accessed and the necessary security and governance to cultivate trust. This, Badlaney says, is where a hybrid-by-design strategy is crucial.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems. Following are some actions IT leaders can take now to secure those funds for the future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). What is SASE? 5 I agree.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

1 – Security. While many newcomers to the cloud assume that hyperscalers will handle most of the security, the truth is they don’t. Arranged for security between your workloads and your client environment? Secured sets of connections for remote client access or remote desktop environments?

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company also designs and sells hardware, and delivers online advertising to the customers. Microsoft Security Bulletins August 2016 (ghacks.net).

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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.”

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CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Solarflare’s OCP NIC is the most comprehensive 10GbE solution for ultra-scale environments requiring low latency and jitter, enhanced small packet performance, Telemetry and Security. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1

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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.” billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

AUGUST 2, 2021

But that good news comes in a year when not a day goes by without reports of another security issue, another ransomware attack. Yes, Windows 11 will require hardware that should bring with it better security, but it comes at a price. We need more security now, not later. To read this article in full, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

Ensuring that data is accessible and secure across multiple environments, on-premises as well as on applications running in the cloud, is an increasing headache,” says Darlene Williams, CIO of software development firm Rocket Software. Inadequate security Lax security can turn a promising cloud initiative into an IT nightmare.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

By contrast, public networks spend up to billions of dollars on 3G, 4G, and 5G licenses and have to recover that investment by squeezing as much usage out of the frequencies as possible. Multi-factor security can’t be implemented with the traditional protocols where data flow is largely unidirectional from the device to the server.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They secured enterprise licenses, integrated the technologies with their existing IT systems and trained employees. IT leaders augmented productivity while preserving security. They remember business line leaders using corporate credit cards for cloud applications from startups. That timeline feels long. 2024 Generative AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. Physical security of digital systems When most IT people think of computer security, they think of clever hackers who infiltrate their systems through the internet.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But the pandemic is pushing many companies to try new things, and the software mainstay is getting into hardware for the first time. Features of the MaskCheck Kiosk include a loop in the base for locking the kiosk with a security cable. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser in 2017. GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy).

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Companies can use data—produced by shop-floor scanners and other hardware tools—to more accurately measure and improve the performance of production-line machinery. CIOs will be more quickly adopting new software and hardware, with many rolling out new tech projects in a matter of months, rather than years. – Dr. Jim Anderson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2023

Here, we actually get a licensed frequency we don’t have to share with anyone, so there’s no interference,” he says. Independence through private 5G Because of this licensed frequency, network slicing offers from mobile operators were out of the question. As a result, the Private 5G project had to be put on hold.

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Network Airlines Transportation Licensing 264

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

[iii] While organizations must plan for usage spikes and failovers, they also have opportunities to clean up workloads, retire unused equipment, and leverage newer, more efficient hardware and solutions. Power savings represents just part of the equation.

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Industry Data Center Energy .Net 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Owned hardware assets. Hardware purchased with a three to five year depreciation plan or lease contracts tie up budget that could be otherwise used to move more rapidly to cloud. Software licenses. Legacy investments with long ROI timeframes may be perceived as ‘committed’ expenses.

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Cloud Devops Data Center Strategy 245

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

Asset and Configuration Management Effective management of IT assets and configurations is crucial for maintaining a stable and secure IT environment. The tool should allow you to track and control hardware, software, and other IT assets throughout their lifecycle.

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Knowledge Base Change Management Software Software 246