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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Theres still enough spending by enterprises on servers, licensed software, and the skill sets they need to maintain and operate the environment that currently exists. In terms of raw server and storage capacity, enterprise data centers will not be shrinking at all. The enterprise data center is here to stay.
The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects.
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. Many of those tools are now bundled together in the new vSphere product line.
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%.
Giving a strategic boost to its intellectual property portfolio, Pure Storage announced it has acquired over 100 storage and related technology patents from IBM and the companies have signed a patent cross-license agreement. IBM Storage pure storage'
That doesnt necessarily mean that most enterprises are expanding the amount of cloud storage they need, he says. The Gartner folks are right in saying that there is continued inflation with IT costs on things such as storage, so companies are paying more for essentially the same storage this year than they were the year prior.
Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase. Since November of 2023, the normal number one customer were attracting right now is guys that have had a heart attack when they got their VMware renewal license, Crump said.
By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas. This provides feedback to ensure that the overall sentiment aligns with desired behaviors which will allow for a motivated and engaged workforce,” Gartner stated.
In the complaint, the group, which called itself the Coalition for a Level Playing Field , accused Microsoft of pushing OneDrive “wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows 11. This makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services.
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These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.
The Foundation is also responding to requests from practitioners to extend its framework to cover other areas of IT, such as private cloud, SaaS, licensing, and on-prem data centers. Financial services, technology, telecom, and retail firms are leading the way, according to the FinOps Foundation.
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Explosive growth in cloud applications has depressed software license sales, and cloud platforms have upended the traditional on-premises server and storage market.
And consider different types of storage for different classes of data: highly-available and responsive storage for transactional data, and higher-latency and lower-cost for data not needed immediately. Further, most software license agreements include annual processes to reset maintenance costs when consumption patterns change.
Singapore wants to go beyond that and reduce energy use for air-cooling by raising the temperatures at which servers and storage racks can safely operate. Replacing older servers, storage, and networking equipment with more energy-efficient models can reduce IT energy consumption.
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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.
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.
VCF brings together compute, storage, networking, and automation resources in a single platform that can host VMs and containerized applications. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution. Much of what VCF offers is well established.
Expansion of license types. These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source. Complex licensing structures. Complex licensing structures. Many database vendors tout a flexible licensing structure. Increasing use of the cloud.
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In April, we also partnered with Tesla to apply their Megapack energy storage technology at our intelligent computing center,” Yan Gang, technical director of Yovole Network, a Shanghai-based cloud computing data center service provider, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
With the high price of cloud storage, customers reimplementing on the vendors SaaS cloud might not take all their on-premises historical data with them. And without the leverage of software license ownership, considerable cost and shrinkflation risks persist. But ultimately, to secure the best possible price you need leverage.
And Nutanix is aggressively courting VMware customers who might be open to jumping ship in the wake of VMware’s purchase by Broadcom and some of the unpopular moves that have followed, such as potentially costly changes to licensing terms and disruptions to channel relationships.
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VCF includes all compute, storage, networking, management, and support capabilities that deliver consistent infrastructure and operations across clouds, and comes at half the list price compared to past pricing. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.
This includes the creation of landing zones, defining the VPN, gateway connections, network policies, storage policies, hosting key services within a private subnet and setting up the right IAM policies (resource policies, setting up the organization, deletion policies).
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The development will likely impact industry-wide licensing and data portability practices. The post Google Gets Rid of Fees To Transfer Data Out of Cloud Platform appeared first on Spiceworks.
One example: a customer that has decommissioned nodes and is looking to increase storage capacity. The company completed the assessment, realized their nodes are taking up physical space, and determined they need more storage.
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