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Kingfisher Group CTO Chris Blatchford: "We're not anti-big vendors — especially of ERP systems — but we do need to see the value."

Tip o' the hat to SUSE for demonstrating some corporate social responsbility.

(From The Register) A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade

In yet another blow for customer choice, Broadcom discontinues the ability for (remaining) VMware hosters to rent VMware licenses. Note: Shared as part of Virtified's mission to keep vendors accountable.

Reporting by Ry Crozier at itnews.com.au A pragmatic yet radical custom-assembled AI-powered workbench for modernising apps ... that's delivering results today.

According to The Register, UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, naming Computacenter as a co-defendant.

By Simon Sharwood VMware will port elements of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to Nvidia's power-guzzling servers. Plans call for phased development to bring all VCF features to Arm over a series of releases. See the full article here .

Equinix announces a set of partnerships to leverage nuclear power across its data centre fleet.

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now generally available in six AWS Regions

Nutanix explores the impact of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware.

To keep pace with the AI boom, investors could pour $7 trillion into building data centers over the next five years.

Despite pledging help for those who don’t convert their perpetual licenses, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support.

SUSE Virtualization 1.5 is now generally available and adds support for managing virtual machines (VMs) on Arm64-based Kubernetes clusters.

By Simon Sharwood Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today VMware has...

Wherein Broadcom states "The transition to the subscription model does not impact customers’ perpetual license rights. In addition, Broadcom announced that access to all patches for Critical Severity Security Alerts, as defined by VMware Security Response Center (see website here for details), will be available to all customers including those that no longer have active maintenance and support contracts. Supported versions of VMware vSphere are versions 7.x and 8.x."

Wherein Hock Tan states that "To ensure that customers whose maintenance and support contracts have expired and choose to not continue on one of our subscription offerings are able to use perpetual licenses in a safe and secure fashion, we are announcing free access to zero-day security patches for supported versions of vSphere, and we’ll add other VMware products over time."