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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready says VMware’s plan to increase the cost of its CPU software licensing for customers who have more than 32 cores will open new doors for his company and help further ...

In a move that should please its customers, but not necessarily its shareholders, VMware announced on Tuesday that it would price its software for dual-core processors at the same price as it does for ...

The results mark the first time sales haven't increased at VMware since it became a public company two years ago VMware reported a drop in profit for the second quarter as businesses cut spending on ...

I know several people here use VMWare here. I love it. I run 2 virtual linux machines here at the office, one on my laptop, and one on my desktop. On my laptop (where I do a lot of web development ...