by Mohammad Inamullah | Oct 16, 2024 | Virtualization, VMware
In my previous post on this topic, I went over AT&T’s court filings to prevent Broadcom from suspending support on AT&T’s VMware licenses. This came after an apparent negotiation stalemate between AT&T and Broadcom over a 1050% increase...
by RedwoodCompliance | Oct 5, 2024 | General, Optimization, Virtualization, VMware
Broadcom’s aggressive VMware license changes have given us an interesting new episode. It seems their attempts to extort AT&T have landed them in court. On August 29th, 2024, AT&T filed a court motion to, essentially, prevent Broadcom from terminating...
by RedwoodCompliance | Sep 25, 2024 | General, Optimization, Virtualization, VMware
I always advise my clients to pay close attention to the state of affairs at their technology vendors. For example, if a company gets acquired by a private equity firm, that should be red flag (Quest is an important case in point). In fact, one of my clients had a...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Jul 7, 2022 | Compliance, General, Virtualization, VMware
Methodically counting Oracle licenses across different environments and infrastructure types is a critical pre-requisite to effective Oracle license management. I figured it would be helpful to gather the most important concepts in this quick reference. We will be...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Jun 29, 2022 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, GCP, OCI, Oracle Cloud, Virtualization, VMware
The topic of VMware cloud solutions comes up often in my work for two main reasons: Cloud vendor comparisons around features and pricing. This includes minimum/maximum configuration specs, corresponding pricing, and cost-per-resource, and an illustrative...
