Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has significantly impacted licensing costs, forcing many organizations to rethink their virtualization strategies. As highlighted in our previous blog post, some businesses have reported price hikes of over 1,000%, alongside the discontinuation of perpetual support renewals.
In the wave of announcements coming from Microsoft Ignite in November (with AI being front and center), news of Microsoft Entra Private Access got lost in the shuffle. Microsoft Entra Private Access reached General Availability (GA) on November 27, 2024. This solution is part of the Microsoft Entra Suite and provides a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) framework to securely connect users to private applications and resources.
Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023 for approximately $61 billion. This acquisition has raised concerns about potential increases in licensing costs and changes to the licensing structure, which have been substantiated.
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In December of 2023, it was announced that the ability to move a VM to a zonal configuration (deployed into a specific availability zone). Prior to this, if a VM was deployed without being set in a availability zone, an administrator would have had not choice but to rebuild the VM (provided that VM was slated for that region). A traditional deployment would post information as noted in Image 1 below in the general properties of the VM. Please note the edit feature now highlighted to the side of the “availability zone”.
For companies using Azure virtual machines, there are many avenues to reduce costs. Historically many companies have focused on the compute aspects of virtual machines. This is the appeal of reservations; by committing to a machine series in a region a company can reduce the computer costs significantly.
While effective, many Microsoft customers overlook the costs of the operating systems which they are leasing per month. To explore this, let’s use Azure Price Calculator and examine the monthly cost of basic VM ( D2ds v4 ) noted in image 1 below:
Picture this, you have an employee traveling internationally for a work event, but they forgot their password and are unable to get in touch with the IT department. As a result, they can’t get into the programs and platforms needed to accomplish what they set out to at the event. Situations like this are becoming more and more common due to the continued increase in popularity of remote and hybrid workforces.
As organizations move to support hybrid and remote workforces, they're challenged with managing the different devices that access organization resources. Admins must protect organization data, manage end-user access, and support users from wherever they work. To help with these challenges and tasks, Rutter Networking Technologies recommends using Microsoft Intune. Never heard of this Microsoft solution? We break down what Microsoft Intune is, why it’s our recommendation, and more below.
