Plain Virtualization

VMware has been trying to transit to subscription licensing for a long time which what all other software companies have already done. With Broadcom acquisition, the perpetual licensing availability is no longer available as announced  here and a KB on this. There is a good blog article that just got release to show where each product packaging is replaced with. There are just some things I like to highlight. vCenter Server is no longer available as it is no longer selling as a standalone product but it comes free as part of the new subscription licensing. Another item, vCloud Director, which will only be available to Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and not to end user which this article is addressing to. Many might say that why is VMware by Broadcom removing the perpetual licensing. Let's take a moment, it has been a long overdue move that just got accelerated. In fact, if not all, software companies such as Microsoft, Citrix, etc. are all on subscriptions and VMware has been one ...

The term "lock in" has been there for many reasons. Recently was in a discussion with some customers and this term came about again. Let's first define "lock in". In the context of IT, "lock in" prevent customers from moving away from an adopted technology, or you call in trapped. Using example of mainframe. Once an application runs mainframe, there is no alternative replacement. The only way to move out is to look for a replacement doing a complete refactor and hoping that data can still be utilised. That also explains, in the early days when mainframe was introduced till date, most are still on it. Also of course not mentioning the reliability and downtime that mainframe provide. At that point in time, there were only less than a handful of mainframe system e.g. IBM, Compaq Tandem, etc. and the technology offered were far beyond any others. At today's context, technology choices of a similar domain are massive. Even though mainframe might be an l...