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VMware licensing and pricing hikes: What options do you have?

CIO Business Intelligence

The stories abound about pricing increases following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in late 2023. A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. The same is true of what were previously a la carte VMware products. An increase of 300%.

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Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

Virtualized Greek

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This places VMware and Cisco on a collision course.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

Virtualized Greek

We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. So, the “typical” administrator will have strong Windows skills. I believe I’m of the same ilk of the typical traditional VMware enterprise sysadmin.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

Prouty joined Akamai in 1999 and has been instrumental in developing systems that have been foundational to the companys growth, including ERP and supply chain. Prior to joining HPE, she had stints at VMware, Iron Mountain, EMC, Sun Microsystems, and Dell. In her own words: She offered advice in three areas: 1.

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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO Business Intelligence

Due to the wide variety of services offered by MSPs, nearly any IT job can be found within the industry, including IT support specialists, service delivery managers, network operations technicians, systems administrators, security analysts, cloud architects, and more.

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IT Automation Provider Puppet Labs Acquires Cloudsmith

Data Center Knowledge

Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications. VMware Invests $30 Million in Puppet Labs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. RELATED POSTS: Puppet Labs Rolls Out Puppet Enterprise 3.0.

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Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution.

Data Center Knowledge

Riverbed and VMware Collaborate on Networks. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. and Steelhead EX 1360 model appliances are expected to be generally available in the third quarter of 2013. Riverbed Accelerates RiOS WAN Optimization.