Hypothetically speaking you have two (2) virtualized Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard edition servers running in a VMware ESX 4.1 environment. Their are 12 virtualization hosts with 2 physical CPUs ...

Microsoft rolled out a description of its SQL Server 2012 licensing model on Thursday. Microsoft's up-and-coming relational database management system (formerly code-named "Denali") promises ...

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...

Microsoft said last week that it will switch from a per-processor to a per-core licensing model when Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter editions hit the market sometime next summer, claiming ...

"Microsoft SQL Server Standard edition will be able to run on a four-processor server with dual-core processors, utilizing all cores on the processors, and requiring just four licenses. That's the ...

Windows Server 2016, not likely to arrive until the second half of next year, is going to shake up the way Microsoft licenses its server operating system, moving away from per socket licensing to per ...

Not long in the past, SQL Server licensing was an easy and straightforward process. You used to take one of a few paths to get your SQL Server licenses. The first and easiest path was to buy your SQL ...

Microsoft is giving its Cloud Solution Provider partners full access to Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RI), the company said Thursday. Microsoft also revealed that CSPs will be able to sell ...

Microsoft has announced a major update to its Windows Server licensing program, which in part was driven by threats of legal action by the European Union. The most notable change is adding the option ...