CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

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. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. VMware now has several competitors in the virtualization space, with more than 30 server virtualization vendors listed in a recent Gartner market guide.

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Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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Network World

APRIL 17, 2025

That changed in February 2024 after VMware was acquired by Broadcom and it proceeded to transition and perpetual licensing and migrate to a subscription model, a decision that went over very poorly. However, replacing a virtualization environment is neither trivial nor easy. It was simply a line in the release notes for version 8.0

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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.” We have gone from choosing an operating system to being able to run any application anywhere and on any cloud by virtualizing storage.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

According to the 2024 State of Production Kubernetes report from Spectro Cloud, 85% of organizations have Kubernetes in virtualized data centers, and 75% of organizations are committed to adopting Kubernetes for future infrastructure needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

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%.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Virtualization. (31). Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in. Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Predictions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

The software company is making it virtually impossible for its customers to work with non-SAP process mining solutions. The dispute revolved around the question of how users who access SAP via third-party software should be licensed. SAP, in turn, argued that only users licensed as named users were allowed to access SAP software.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

to 250 GiB per core, which the company says will offer customers a more powerful hyperconverged infrastructure offering for running virtual machines and containers. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov. 1, 2024: V Mware increased the vSAN capacity in vSphere Foundation by 2.5x

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Discontent over VMware licensing changes and shifts to the partner program has sent customers looking elsewhere, and at least two competitors say they are benefiting from the discord in the form of increased sales. The number of new customers and new partners doubled compared to the same period last year. “…we

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

(Co-authored with Nancy Lin, Senior Associate) The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) recently announced 8 new virtual banking licenses in the market and their operators will all launch new digital-only banks there before or in early 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2025

It adheres to the security, compliance, and privacy policies the enterprise already has in place, and is available as an add-on to existing Microsoft licenses. Meta AI Meta AI is Metas multimodal AI virtual assistant for the companys messaging and social media applications, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Some delayed decisions by relying on existing VMware licenses, while others explored alternatives or ran redundancies to compare options. The disruption from VMware’s acquisition has led many to reconsider their virtualization strategies and explore new options. “By

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, and shifts to the partner program. Competitors are claiming some success in attracting VM defectors , though analysts aren’t reporting widespread migrations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. As we look at our own licenses, it could be a significant uphill battle on cost structure,” he says.

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Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Central to the platform are the firm’s cloud-based, natural language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology. Streamlined licensing is another component of the Blueprint. “To Juniper’s Mist AI engine analyzes data from networked access points and devices so it can detect anomalies and offer actionable resolutions.

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Network World

JULY 25, 2024

And if it was the extra little bit of runway perpetual license holdouts needed in order to move to VCF, why not get some good press about it rather than including it as a ‘standard concession’ on every deal they are inking and signing over the next 12 months?” Single sign-on across all VSF product components.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

First, tool vendors sold them with perpetual licenses, which meant a long-term investment. Most network management tools are now available as SaaS solutions with a subscription license. Tools aren’t as “sticky“ as they once were For a variety of reasons, network management tools have historically been sticky in IT organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

And the licensing models for those solutions should be just as flexible. Flexible licensing programs that allow organizations to pay by usage have emerged as a solution to this challenge. Additionally, look for flexible licensing programs that offer a wide portfolio of solutions and services rather than one or two.

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Network World

JULY 31, 2024

Back then, Nokia Chief Licensing Officer Arvin Patel wrote in a blog post: “Today, we have commenced legal action against Amazon for the unauthorized use of Nokia’s video-related technologies in its streaming services and devices. The Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform practices this limitation.

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Venture Beat

APRIL 20, 2022

StatusPro announced that its NFL Pro Era will debut this fall on virtual reality headsets as the first officially licensed NFL VR title. Read More.

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Network World

JUNE 3, 2024

Software tweaks for energy efficiency The energy efficiency of servers can also be improved by using “software-based tools such as server virtualization, applying green software techniques, and identifying and addressing software carbon hotspots,” according to Infocomm Media Development Authority, the Singapore government body behind the strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. We also offer flexible month-to-month bridge licensing options for existing hardware, giving customers time to make informed long-term decisions for their business.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 29, 2021

On December 21, the HDMI Licensing Administrator (HDMI LA) revealed HDMI 2.1a at a pre-CES 2022 virtual press briefing. The standard comes with a single new feature called Source-Based Tone Mapping (SBTM), which helps optimize HDR signals TFT Central notes.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The filing alleged that AT&T’s lawsuit is an attempt to secure more time to transition to other software while still receiving discounted support services, which Broadcom has already phased out for perpetual license holders. AT&T and Broadcom did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Within two years, it will be virtually impossible to buy a PC, tablet, laptop, or mobile phone without AI, Lovelock says. Cloud services, software licenses, hardware everythings creeping up, he says. Whether you want it or not, youre going to get it sold to you. Its like the IT worlds version of sticker shock.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2016

Alluxio is a memory speed virtual distributed storage system. Alluxio is open source under the Apache license, and we are committed to maintaining this model. Open source software is critical to the modern enterprise software landscape. Alluxio is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the Big Data ecosystem.

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Network World

JULY 1, 2024

The new Nutanix is virtually unrecognizable from the company that created the hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) market in 2011. For many enterprises, this means moving to software-defined infrastructure that has the flexibility to support bare-metal, virtualized, and container-based environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

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. CloudHealth has strong ties to virtualization and IT automation found in VMWare Cloud Foundation.

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CTOvision

MAY 7, 2014

Geoevents-chef-installer: A set of Chef recipes (think of them as macros to automatically build a running Virtual Machine) that will work to set the geoevents app up on either a local Virtualbox VM or onto an Amazon Web Service VM. GeoEvents was used by deployers and first responders in over 100 real-world events. In the News.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

would seek to deauthorize and replace its Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice from 2000. The OGL allows third parties to create virtually any sort of D&D material for profit, such as adventure modules, sourcebooks, or live-play shows. is now available under a Creative Commons license.? And we’ve listened.

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Network World

MAY 21, 2024

Virtual agents also use AI to mimic human interaction and understand the end user’s language, asking additional questions to gain context, responding to queries in real time, and handing off to a human agent when necessary. SolarWinds offers both perpetual and subscription-based licenses for on-premises and SaaS-based solutions.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft has expanded its ongoing partnership with San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company OpenAI with a new exclusive license on the AI firm’s groundbreaking GPT-3 language model , an auto-generating text program that’s emerged as the most sophisticated of its kind in the industry. Image by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

LPTA Vs. Best Business Value – With Shared Services and Pay-Per-Use licensing, LPTA decisions will be judged on business metrics such as business impact, network efficiency and real-time reporting as part of a new evaluation paradigm.

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