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’s post-acquisition licensing changes for VMware have triggered steep cost hikes, partner cuts, and limited support options, prompting many IT teams to reconsider their virtualization ...

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Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware has led to major licensing changes, replacing perpetual licenses with subscriptions, consolidating products into costly bundles, and introducing per-core ...

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'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 ...

In vSphere 5, VMware is moving from a licensing model that's based on the number of server cores to one that's based on the amount of vRAM, or memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the ...

Throughout the course of the last decade, VMware virtualization has become the preferred platform for hundreds of thousands of customers, many of them running their Business Critical Applications on ...

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 ...

Broadcom's price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in ...

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 ...