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Arista adds intelligent switch stacking, management for campus networks

Network World

SWAG is implemented in the Extensible Operating System (EOS), Arista’s flagship network operating system that runs across its switch and router portfolio. Third, when customers are using third-party tools, such as SolarWinds for SNMP management, they are licensed via IP address.

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Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?

CIO Business Intelligence

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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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

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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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

We have gone from choosing an operating system to being able to run any application anywhere and on any cloud by virtualizing storage.” VMware customer concerns linger : Enterprise customers have questions about VMware’s future direction, licensing changes, and product roadmap following Broadcom’s takeover.

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Arista delivers intelligent load balancing, AI job-centric observability

Network World

A new AI cluster performance and load balancing feature is now part of Aristas flagship Extensible Operating System (EOS) that runs across its networking portfolio. CV UNO is a licensed component of Aristas CloudVision as-a-service platform.

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