County authorizes GIS migration after VMware licensing change; staff to split costs with authority
The county approved authorization to proceed with migrating GIS servers from VMware (now a Broadcom subscription model) to Microsoft Hyper-V; the one-time move and temporary backup storage will be cost-shared with the authority, avoiding an ongoing Broadcom subscription that could cost $13,000–$25,000 per year.
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Sheree Pis Brown, GIS manager for the county, told commissioners that Broadcom's acquisition of VMware converted the county's previous perpetual server licenses into subscription-based licensing, creating an unplanned annual cost for the county.
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