Tag: server complexity

Jerome Wendt’s opinion piece in today’s ComputerWorld is a short, sweet and to-the-point summary of the downsides of consolidating on vertical servers – The downsides to server virtualization.  Wendt’s first (and I think the most important point) is licensing.  “Software Licensing. Larger servers include more CPUs that each has more processing power. However, this can translate into increased software licensing costs. I just spoke to one company that found out too late that their software licensing costs were tied to […]