I thought I'd throw this one out there, because we're in the middle of a voluntary "audit" (as in, we called them and they got a partner involved because we KNOW our licensing is fubar'd), and some of ...

Microsoft is kicking off a nine-month promotion on September 1 which will offer VMware users free Windows Server Datacenter licenses for switching from vSphere to Hyper-V. The September 1 start date ...

We're building a few VMware ESX servers and I'm looking at the best way to license windows and perhaps save some money.<BR><BR>It looks like the Enterprise Edition will allow us 1 physical and/or 4 ...

VMware recently announced a change to its software licensing model that caps the number of cores supported in the CPU, effective April 2, 2020. Why did VMware do this? What is the real impact to IT?

Effective April 2, VMware will increase its CPU licensing pricing model for customers who have more than 32 cores. VMware channel partners talk to CRN about the market impact. VMware is doubling the ...

Microsoft has always positioned Hyper-V to be a less expensive alternative to VMware. Now the software giant says that with VMware’s new VRAM-based pricing, it calculates a private cloud built on ...

When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro ...

Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday after VMware made some licensing changes in July. The spat, largely focused on the costs of tapping virtualization infrastructure, is nothing ...

‘AMD has a few levels above 32 cores. For those that are, we tried to be as flexible as possible in giving customers a fair amount of time to grandfather them in with the goal being zero impact to our ...

Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics." The whitepaper ...