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%.

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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.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They are intently aware that they no longer have an IT staff that is large enough to manage an increasingly complex compute, networking, and storage environment that includes on-premises, private, and public clouds. “They also know that the attack surface is increasing and that they need help protecting core systems.

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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.

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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. Nutanix is a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for file and object storage. Dell is number one in server and storage shipments into the enterprise.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

The logical progression from the virtualization of servers and storage in VSANs was hyperconvergence. By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. Worries around vendor lock-in surround the black-box nature of HCI-in-a-box appliances, too.

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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. > Her path has included stints at Align Technology, Nimble Storage, and Conga, where she was CIO from 2017-2021.She It was quite a juggle.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 9, 2016

Learn how scaling of customized IT infrastructure for a hosting organization in a multi-tenant environment benefits from flexibility of modern storage, unified management, and elastic hardware licensing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

VMware Cloud Foundation is a refreshed strategy that offers IBM and VMware clients the ability to bring multiple offerings and licenses to IBM Cloud. Clients can leverage thousands of hardware profiles and storage options without having to re-architect their existing applications, allowing for control of their data and where it resides. “The

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

We have also been investing heavily to expand our data center networking capabilities across switching, automation, and integration into HPE compute, storage, and HPE GreenLake. HPE Aruba Networking solutions are deeply integrated into a wide variety of HPE compute, storage, HCI, and HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud offerings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ii] Furthermore, according to HPE internal data, average storage utilization hovers around 40%. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. He went with cloud provider Wasabi for those storage needs. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Security of the cloud itself – the infrastructure and storage – fall to the service providers. For compliance, all the new licenses need to be audited and kept in a tight review cycle. The public cloud offers plenty of financial incentives since no up-front investment in hardware is required and services can be dialed up and down.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To build that budget, an ideal IT procurement solution provides an overview of your inventory, including aggregate information on storage, compute, virtual resource allocation, and configuration details. It would also provide a simulator for on-premises IT that includes the ability to input your actual costs of storage, hosts, and memory.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Multiple touch points of administration slow down production, and the costs of software licensing, disruptive upgrades, and over-provisioning can add up fast. Storage efficiency. In fact, the HPE solution delivers superior storage efficiency as compared to alternate VMware backup solutions. Cost optimization.

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CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. Ruchira Sahan. Posted July 23rd, 2013. Add Your Comments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With storage you might always want the best support plan to replace any failed components within a few hours or less,” says Pratt. Audit all contracts IT organizations almost always pay for more than the business actually needs for hardware, software, and networking.

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CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

To that end, AWS has been increasing efforts to educate large enterprise customers on how to adopt intelligent tiering storage options to reduce costs of hosting dormant data — while paying premium for the data in most active use in applications running on AWS.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You know the drill: software licenses, subscription fees, consulting fees, and hardware infrastructure. They had everything mapped out: software licenses, new cameras and sensors, integration services, and training. The reality of data costs goes far beyond simple storage and collection. Let me give you a real example.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Gartner analyst Jon Forest adds, “They want to be much more than a networking company as far as selling boxes and licensing software. The problem for Cisco is that ‘normal’ in networking hardware is not a strong growth market anymore. They want to be a data company too, not at the expense of networking, but in addition to it.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

Most enterprises already have some form of cloud infrastructure in place, observes Ronen Schwartz, general manager and senior vice president, cloud storage, at hybrid cloud data services and data management firm NetApp. Cloud complacency Cloud computing’s first era is drawing to a close. The cloud is at an inflection point, Schwartz states.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 8, 2025

One of the biggest advantages of cloud hosting is that it is elastic; if you need more storage or computing power, you can easily scale up. You do not have to buy and configure new hardware. You do not have to buy and configure new hardware. No upfront hardware investment You only pay for actual use. The downside?

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility.

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Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 94

GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2024

The Pentagon-backed mission, known as DarkSky-1, will demonstrate Blue Origin’s flight system, including space-based data processing and storage capabilities, ground-based radiometric tracking and Blue Ring’s telemetry, tracking and command hardware, also known as TT&C. Space Force.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2025

The Microsoft Archives regularly fields inquiries from Microsoft’s legal team, often to retrieve original packaging, license agreements, or sealed copies of legacy software needed for ongoing cases or compliance reviews. These storage materials are proactively replaced every 5 to 10 years to ensure long-term preservation.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Networking.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Sony subsidiary Nextorage has released an SSD that’s perfect for the PS5 ( via Tom’s Hardware ): it has a heatsink (which Sony says is a requirement ), is fast enough to well surpass Sony’s recommendations, and comes in 1TB and 2TB varieties, which gives you plenty of storage for your games. well, like it was made for it.

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Storage Comparison Licensing Hardware 114

The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

We at YouTube TV license content from our content providers to then provide to you. When content prices increase, the overall cost of streaming goes up for everyone. YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) June 30, 2020.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Derek Seaman: VMworld – Architecting Storage DRS Clusters INF-STO1545. Arista: I also chatted briefly with Arista about the hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoint (VTEP) support they were demonstrating. As many others have pointed out in the comments to my post on OTV-VXLAN traffic flow , the addition of hardware VTEP support (i.e.,

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2024

Perceive specializes in technology for serving large artificial intelligence models on edge devices, hardware that often operates with limited power, processing, connectivity, and storage on the boundaries of networks. The acquisition is structured as an asset purchase agreement, scheduled to close by the end of the year.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel. Second, DPDK offers SR-IOV support and allows L2 switching in hardware on Intel’s network interface cards (estimated to be 5-6x more performant than the soft switch).

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 131

Galido

JANUARY 17, 2020

That means adding up what you spend on hardware, software, licenses, suppliers and warranties. How much more hardware and software do you need? What kind of data storage space do you need? There are no storage costs and you can usually find 24/7 support should something go wrong. It simply hosts your files.

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Hardware Internet Training Storage 94

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. The WD Sentinel DX4000 looks pretty awesome from a hardware perspective as well.

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