Ideal Software Licensing Model – Requirements Collection
I’m looking for some feedback and thoughts from the community to help define a reasonable Licensing Model that takes Physical & Virtual into account. From my view as a client I don’t think this is all that complicated at the end of the day. More discussions with some vendors around licensing and I’m finding more [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: licensing, physical, virtual, Virtualization
Business Objects is Virtualization/MultiCore Stupid
Recently I have been involved in discussions internally on what it will take to get Business Objects onto a Virtual Machine. The main talk has been around potentially removing another equivalent product and moving entirely over to Business Objects. Then we got pricing for Business Objects. The standard piece of hardware today is pretty hefty [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: businessobjects, licensing, Virtualization
Virtual Iron dead in the water?
Is this true? If so what’s Oracle’s game plan? They just buy Virtual Iron for a virtualization management. Appear to have a clue since they are buying Sun with a huge virtualization skill set and product line. Then this info comes along? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/oracle_kills_virtual_iron/ In a letter to Virtual Iron’s sales partners, Oracle says it “will [...]
In: OpenSolaris, Server Virtualization · Tagged with: oracle, solaris, virtual iron, Virtualization
Cisco joins the Server Market
Today’s big news: Cisco has come out with a single stop full solution rack for CPU, Disk & Network in one using all the best of virtualization technology of Storage, Server & Networking. Tight VMware integration, all Cisco hardware & lots of virtualization technology at 10G. Over the past several years I’ve kinda figured that [...]
In: Server Virtualization, VMware · Tagged with: cisco, server, Virtualization, VMware