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?

Broadcom Inc. is accelerating a plan to strong-arm VMware customers into signing up for subscriptions by killing off older, on-premises perpetual licenses to use the popular virtualization software.

It was all the buzz this past week: EMC VMware has changed its licensing with vSphere 5 from a model that is based on processor cores and physical memory to a model that charges based upon both a ...

VMware's chief executive has apologized for the disruption caused by a licensing issue which resulted in the company's latest hypervisors, ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2, not powering on after ...

As Intel and AMD continue to increase processing power by expanding out cores per processor, how will this affect VMware licensing? Good question. Effective November 1st of 2006, VMware redefined and ...

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 ...

VMware announced updates to its Edge Compute Stack (ECS), a move that mirrors the message of its new parent company Broadcom in providing new packaging and more integration. VMware unveiled VECO last ...

In the wake of widespread customer confusion over a series of license changes announced in December, Broadcom Inc.’s VMware subsidiary is positioning the moves as simplifying its product portfolio and ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LicenseFortress, a leading provider of software license management solutions, is pleased to announce significant updates to its ArxPlatform. The enhanced platform aims to ...

‘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 ...

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