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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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5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform

Network World

HiveIO Hive Fabric HiveIO is a Linux Kernel-based VM (KVM) that features an intelligent message bus, pool orchestration, user profile management, and shared storage. Enterprises running high-performance databases often require external storage arrays, and Nutanix has addressed that need by certifying storage with SAP HANA and Oracle RAC.

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Pure Storage brings storage-as-a-service to files

Network World

Pure Storage is adding features to its storage-as-a-service (STaaS) platform, including Real-time Enterprise File, Universal Credits, and a virtual machine assessment to help admins optimize their VMs. So, the IT organization has to perform like the cloud — and storage is such a critical part of the cloud operating model.

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FinOps SaaS: The missing piece of the puzzle

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Thinking of moving off VMware? Gartner tallies cost of large-scale VMware migration

Network World

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

Network World

“When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.” That’s where we came up with this vision: people would build private clouds with fully software-defined networks, storage and computing.

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Microsoft is set to hike its Power BI prices — will buyers jump ship or just take the hit?

CIO Business Intelligence

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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