VMware ceo Paul Maritz has responded to the criticism that users had on the new licensing structure for vSphere 5. According to Maritz continues to vSphere a ‘bargain’ and having 95 percent of the customers are not bothered by the new pricing structure.
With the introduction of vSphere 5 last week presented virtualisatiebedrijf VMware new licensing structure, which gave rise to much criticism. Many customers have said to be afraid now more to pay. The ceo of VMware, Paul Maritz, said at the presentation of the quarterly results of the company that he is the fuss is understood, but the fear was unfounded. For 95 percent of the customers, nothing changes, said Maritz according Computable. For the 5 percent particularly large customers affected, remains VMware a bargain, the ceo.
Customers pay at the new pricing structure is not on the basis of the number of cpu cores and physical memory of a server. Instead, there is a pricing structure whereby customers per cpu; each cpu is also a certain amount of virtual memory allocated. According to VMware, its customers, thereby, no longer bound by the physical limitations of the hardware; virtual memory can be pooled.
Some customers need more cpu licenses to buy to a certain amount of virtual memory. Maritz states, however, that vSphere 5 provides a number of benefits that the extra cost to make up. So supports vSphere 5 you now have 32 virtual cpus per instance, where with the previous version 8 virtual cpu’s. The available virtualized memory is increased from 255GB to 1TB per instance. It is therefore called Maritz vSphere 5 still a ‘bargain’.
The quarterly financial results of VMware saw there. Sales for the second quarter of this year increased by 37 percent to 921 million dollars. The profit amounted to 220 million dollars, where that one year earlier, 75 million dollars was.