Introduction In one of the biggest tech acquisitions of 2022, Broadcom acquired VMware for a staggering $61 billion. This move has significant implications for VMware customers, as Broadcom plans to transition VMware’s licensing model from perpetual to subscription-based. While this shift may provide more flexibility, it also carries the potential for substantial cost increases. To navigate these changes and avoid unnecessary expenses, customers need to be proactive in optimizing their VMware licensing. That’s where our
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This post is the second in our content series on exploring the risks of non-compliance with security, financial, architectural, or vendor requirements when deploying mission/business-critical
There are numerous options for scripting common SQL Server tasks. Most tasks can be scripted and many times the need evolves as the environment changes.
This post is the first in our content series on exploring the risks of non-compliance with security, financial, architectural, or vendor requirements when deploying mission/business-critical
Organizations worldwide depend heavily on their enterprise information systems. These systems are critical for business success, and appropriately receive a majority of the organizational
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Many House of Brick clients I work with are unaware of the additional memory configurations AWS has introduced for RDS compute instances using the BYOL
Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying “in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Well, Mr. Franklin obviously never knew about Java pricing
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