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?

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 ...

Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell Exclusive Dell has filed a claim against VMware ...

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.

‘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 ...

Broadcom’s recent “major” update to VMware’s Cloud Platform provided the new parent with an opportunity to shower love all over its new acquisition, but it also continued to highlight ongoing ...

Broadcom is discontinuing sales of perpetual licenses for over a dozen VMware products, the company announced this week. The move comes less than a month after the completion of Broadcom's acquisition ...

VMware licensing changes have left many organisations seeking alternatives. But as they migrate, how can they avoid the same ...

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 ...

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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 ...