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Juniper offers AI pricing incentives, education programs

Network World

Juniper Networks is offering education programs and pricing incentives to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI-based technologies. Streamlined licensing is another component of the Blueprint. “To Juniper Validated Designs (JVD) are also part of the program.

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

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. A lot of open-source programs are meant for non-commercial use only.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. McDowell agrees.

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Unlocking value: Oracle enterprise license models for optimal ROI

CIO Business Intelligence

With tight IT budgets getting tighter, many Oracle licensees with Unlimited Licensing Agreements (ULAs) are tempted to consider an exit plan to avoid the pinch of rising support costs. Most enterprises want to avoid expending unnecessary time, effort, and resources on licensing issues, so they can focus on maximizing value and results.

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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

In the 1970s, five formerIBMemployees developed programs that enabled payroll and accounting on mainframe computers. Custom programming is not possible with this version. Because HEC is a private cloud, the system can be adapted to a customers needs through programming.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Broadcom favors stock buyback over investing in innovation

Network World

Thats been apparent since the companys acquisition of virtualization software vendor VMware, where licensing prices have leapt upwards although many customers have little choice but to continue to pay the spiralling prices. Broadcoms statement quoted CEO Hock Tan as arguing that the buyback is from a position of strength.

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