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Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

Overcoming the Perils of Licensing with CiRBA

By Ben Kepes on January 30, 2013

The efficiency that virtualization brings is good and all, but there still exists issues around licensing costs. Essentially having a virtualization product, and making licensing changes to optimize a customer’s costs are two very different things. CiRBA, a provider of capacity control software, aims to help with this problem with

Posted in Application Software | Tagged CiRBA, license, Microsoft SQL Server, servers, Site Management, Virtual machine, vmware

VMware Highlights Enterprise Clouds With vSphere 5

VMware Highlights Enterprise Clouds With vSphere 5

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 14, 2011

VMware (previous CloudAve coverage), the leader in virtualization space with some interesting cloud moves, recently announced Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite, a repackaged version of their offerings targeting the enterprise market and service providers. VMware has been struggling to get their cloud infrastructure services game going even though their PaaS and SaaS strategy are in strong […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged iaas, insights, license, vmware, vsphere 5 | 1 Response

Selling modern software

Selling modern software

By Guest Authors on September 7, 2010

Some conversational threads are converging today: 1. In a discussion this morning, I talked through two sales models in the “e2.0″ space — one, wherein non-IT people sign up for accounts, and the vendor then approaches IT about signing up for a comprehensive license; one wherein, the vendor uses more traditional enterprise sales methods to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged bottom up, conferences, defragcon, enterprise software, grassroots, license, open source, saascon, software as a service

Limitations of Proprietary Licensing in the Cloud Marketplace

Limitations of Proprietary Licensing in the Cloud Marketplace

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 6, 2008

Image via CrunchBase I am an unabashed advocate of Opensource philosophy. I personally believe that Opensource spurs innovation and offers better security. However, I don’t consider proprietary nature of software and standards as an outright evil. In my opinion, Opensource and Proprietary approaches are two different approaches to solving the same problem. Since I don’t […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged aws, cloud computing, ec2, license, microsoft, opensource, proprietary | 1 Response

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