Posts Tagged ‘licensing’

vSphere Licensing Explained

Posted by Ryan on May 23rd, 2009 under Headlines, VMware
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Now that vSphere from VMware is officially available, the first thing on many people’s minds is “when can I get it?”  Ok, so maybe you aren’t quite that eager to uproot the stability of your virtual datacenter and upgrade to the latest and greatest next weekend, but the new featureset is compelling enough to start [...]

Microsoft Revisits Virtual Licensing

Posted by Ryan on August 19th, 2008 under Headlines, Hyper-V, Microsoft
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Microsoft announced today that it will eliminate its licensing restrictions that prevented customers from being able to move its virtual applications to a different virtual server more than once every 90 days.  This is important as the world moves closer and closer to being hardware agnostic.  Prior to today, it was technically neccessary for administrators [...]