CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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Groups Open Source Licensing Social 328

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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Licensing Data Center Vmware Data 312

Network World

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses. The inquiry follows over a year of informal interviews with competitors and business partners, Bloomberg reported.

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Cloud Licensing Microsoft Report 413

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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Licensing Training Data Artificial Intelligence 320

Forrester IT

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., are contributing back […]

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Licensing Open Source Enterprise Enterprise 433

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

SaaS billing, in contrast to conventional on-premises software licenses, frequently entails intricate, consumption-based pricing, which makes cost control more challenging. FinOps procedures and ITAM tools should work together to guarantee ongoing SaaS license management and monitoring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

While human-written code can also infringe on copyright or violate open-source licenses, the risk with AI-generated code is related to the data the AI is trained on, says Ilia Badeev, head of data science at Trevolution Group, a travel technology company. “Is that getting all borrowed from one source; are there multiple sources?

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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. And if its used in an app or service with more than 700 million monthly users, a special license from Meta is required. Meta itself refers to it as a community license or a bespoke commercial license.

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Open Source Security Licensing Training 288

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Frequently, organizations are looking not just to trim costs, but for value-added services that few software vendors may be willing to provide.

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Oracle Licensing Database Administration Open Source 312

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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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.

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Data Center Architecture Licensing Energy 269

Forrester IT

MAY 30, 2024

Get some quick next steps on license optimization in this post. VMware price increases have many tech leaders exploring how to migrate away from the VMware stack, while many competitors are amping up their services.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

There are three software licensing options, including a free community edition for enterprises that want to kick the tires.The Hive Fabric Enterprise option includes HCI, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), guest pool deployments and user profile management. HiveIOs Hive Sense is used to proactively monitor and detect anomalies.

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Vmware Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 359

Forrester IT

JULY 25, 2024

Digital banks are gaining traction among consumers, globally. Learn what incumbent banks should do to compete.

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Banking Licensing Security Financial 416

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Info-Tech Research Group noted that most customers need a 30% to 35% discount on the E5 license to match the renewal pricing for M365 E3. Its also important to negotiate flexible licensing terms that include clearly defined usage metrics, renewal-term price protections, and contractual safeguards against future cost increases.

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Microsoft Licensing Tools Groups 232

IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Content licensing deal for AI training is thus the new business model on the block. The post Reddit’s Strategic Play Lands it a $60M Content Licensing Deal Before IPO appeared first on Spiceworks. They can offer a legal high ground and allow companies like Reddit to reduce their advertising dependency, much to the delight of users.

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Licensing Advertising Training Report 264

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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SAP Data Licensing Software 240

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Each product comes with its own licensing model, metering system, graphical user interface (GUI), and operational workflow. In addition to accelerating cross-team workflows and delivering unified experiences for network, security, and business users, Extreme Platform ONE also offers the industrys simplest licensing.

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Network Security Licensing Applications 246

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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IBM Open Source Licensing Software 221

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.

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Vmware Virtualization Quality Assurance Licensing 348

Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The phishing page tries to obtain email credentials, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and tax numbers, says Armorblox.

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Licensing Social Data Security 545

Tech Republic Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Your credit card is worth around $33, your driver's license around $27, and your PayPal account around $42, according to Reviews.org.

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Licensing Data 545

Network World

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Third, when customers are using third-party tools, such as SolarWinds for SNMP management, they are licensed via IP address. So, by exposing a single IP for a group of switches, customers can realize license cost savings,” Venkiteswaran said.

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Network Licensing Operating Systems Groups 319

Information Week

APRIL 12, 2024

Not only does licensing data for AI development provide the obvious benefit of avoiding protracted (and public) battles on the world stage, but it also provides many convenient side benefits.

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Licensing Development Data 482

Information Week

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The newspaper says the company uses its writing without permission, according to a Wall Street Journal report -- as other media companies forge lucrative deals with AI companies to license copyrighted material.

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Journal Licensing Media Report 461

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We immediately looked at tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot because we already had a Microsoft 365 license,” says Ketchum. “We We were happy to pay a little more for the licensing to use a tool we already knew how to support from an operational perspective, making it possible for faculty to test the waters rolling out small AI initiatives.

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Guidelines Policies Licensing Tools 298

Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

Open-source community and future development Following Wiresharks successful open-source model, Stratoshark is being released under the same open-source license asthe Wireshark codebase. Its part of the Wireshark code base, which means it is definitely open source and its always going to be that way, Combs said.

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Analysis System Cloud Open Source 418

Information Week

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The benefit of curbing emissions goes beyond just satisfying regulatory requirements -- it’s a license to do business for years to come.

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Report Licensing 456

Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This move could simplify the shipment process for US companies by allowing foreign data centers to apply for special status, avoiding the need for individual export licenses. Earlier, the US exporters were required to obtain individual licenses to export such chips to “countries of concern.”

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Data Center Licensing Programming Artificial Intelligence 396

Network World

JULY 11, 2024

A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem. Microsoft will also compensate CISPE members for lost revenues related to high licensing costs over the past two years.

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Microsoft Cloud Licensing Google 397

Information Week

AUGUST 12, 2022

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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Open Source Case Study Licensing Study 440

Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In recent years, VMware has faced major headwinds: It migrated its clients from on-premises to public cloud, changed to a cloud-native application development paradigm, shifted to subscription licensing, had frequent cycles of M&A activities, and experienced unfavorable macroeconomic environments.

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Vmware Licensing Cloud Applications 431

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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Vmware Comparison Virtualization Disaster Recovery 287

Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While this is partially a branding and licensing streamlining effort, SharePoint Premium will continue to evolve into an AI-powered content platform with document automation, metadata enrichment, and other intelligent content services. Amid all of the buzz around Copilot at Microsoft Ignite last week, SharePoint Premium was revealed.

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Microsoft Licensing Architecture Applications 416

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

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Education Programming Data Center Licensing 397

Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Discontent over VMware licensing changes and shifts to the partner program has sent customers looking elsewhere, and at least two competitors say they are benefiting from the discord in the form of increased sales.

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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. Following Broadcom’s late 2023 acquisition of VMware, numerous changes prompted customers and partners to reassess their strategies.

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