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?

Virtualization and cloud computing provider VMware announced its Q4 fiscal 2018 earnings last week. The company continued to demonstrate strength in its business through the fiscal year, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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

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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