IT Supplier News, Insight, and Market Intelligence.
Original Articles and Highlights for September:
How Your PC Refresh Cycle Affects Your Microsoft Licensing Costs (and a better way to look at it)
Cisco Acquisition of Splunk and What It Will Mean for Customers
Top 10 Ways to Save on Mainframe: Part 7 of 10 in Series
HashiCorp Starts Charging for Previously Free Open Source Code
Executive Moves Roundup: Disney, Omni Resorts, Eversana, Rite Aid, BJ's and more...
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During the Covid pandemic lockdowns in 2020, many enterprises were forced to buy thousands of laptops (in a big hurry) to enable their people to work from home.
Now, a bit more than 3 years later, supply chains have somewhat stabilized, PC prices have returned to normal-ish, and it’s just about time to think about replacing those 3+ year old devices as their warranties expire and the hardware starts showing its age.
Most of our clients default to the same old mental model that the Microsoft/Intel duopoly have been selling for decades... Read on for more and perhaps another way to look at the situation that could help.
In a monumental move, Cisco Systems, best known for its networking equipment, has announced its intent to acquire Splunk for $28B USD ($157/share), the San Francisco-based company renowned for its software platform that monitors, searches, and analyzes big data along with a full suite of cyber security offerings.
The acquisition makes sense for Cisco as they have been reshaping their business from hardware-centric to higher margin software-centric offerings. Does the acquisition of Splunk by Cisco make sense for either company’s customers? That is quite a different question.
Here we explore some of the critical areas customers of each company should be wary of as they combine.
When it comes to Mainframes, NET(net) sees incredible savings opportunities in 2023. Not since 2008 has there been as much downward pricing pressure on technology incumbents, and we believe meaningful savings targets can be achieved, but due to the market conditions, technology incumbent suppliers are seeking to increase prices and will attempt to be highly disruptive to any cost savings agenda!
Part 7: Modernizing Applications
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HashiCorp announced changes to its open-source license on August 10, 2023. The new license is called the Business Source License (BSL). The BSL is a source-available license that allows for commercial use, but it restricts the use of the software in competition with HashiCorp. This means that companies that use HashiCorp's open-source products for their own commercial offerings may now need to obtain a commercial license from HashiCorp.
