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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Introducing a new line of Network Storage.

Sean Daniel

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. Labels: Backup , NAS , SBS 2011 Essentials , Storage Server Essentials , Training and Awareness.

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A VMworld 2012 Wrap-Up

Scott Lowe

Derek Seaman: VMworld – Architecting Storage DRS Clusters INF-STO1545. Eric and I have been talking since 2009, and I always enjoy talking with him. and vCloud Suite licensing. launch, new features, new licensing terms, and all the rest. TA2259 Ask the Experts at VMworld 2009. A VMworld 2012 Wrap-Up.

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

That concludes the networking section of the demo, and leads Carl and Kit into a storage-focused discussion centered around Carl’s mythical Project Vulcan. vCAC will show the estimated cost of that change, and when the administrator approves that change, vSphere will leverage Storage vMotion to migrate to a new storage tier.

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Fountainhead: Apps and Desktops and Clouds - Oh My!

Fountainhead

Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. ► 2009. (50). What better use-case than to apply a cloud operations model within which to deploy such a solution? Cloud Hosting.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. December 2009 (95). November 2009 (125).