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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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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations.

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Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs

Forrester IT

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. We also review SLA with our end users and service providers, and implement policies and other customer measures based on license agreements and the capabilities of the providers,” he says.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. But in February, Meta released Llama, an open-source LLM licensed for non-commercial use, which quickly became the base for many projects.