{"id":43253,"date":"2023-12-12T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=43253"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:11:30","slug":"broadcom-restructures-vmware-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/broadcom-restructures-vmware-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcom restructures VMware licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcom revises VMware&#8217;s licensing model, introducing significant subscription cost reductions and changes in response to earnings challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcom, following its acquisition of VMware, has made a notable shift in VMware&#8217;s licensing approach, including a substantial 50% reduction in subscription prices for VMware&#8217;s Cloud Foundation and a move away from perpetual licenses.<\/p>\n<p>This change comes as part of a broader strategy to simplify the product portfolio, focusing on core virtualization for smaller entities and advanced suites for larger deployments.<\/p>\n<p>The move to a subscription-only model, aligning with current industry trends, could impact VMware&#8217;s financials with resulting customer push back on the new pricing model.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/12\/12\/vmware_broadcom_licensing_changes\/?td=rt-3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Register<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcom revises VMware&#8217;s licensing model, introducing significant subscription cost reductions and changes in response to earnings challenges. Broadcom, following its acquisition of VMware, has made a notable shift in VMware&#8217;s licensing approach, including a substantial 50% reduction in subscription prices for VMware&#8217;s Cloud Foundation and a move away from perpetual licenses. This change comes as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,9],"tags":[515,275,456],"class_list":["post-43253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","category-todays-news","tag-broadcom","tag-top-story","tag-vmware"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43254,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43253\/revisions\/43254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}