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Government urged to save money by ditching VMware

14 March 2014 •

Open source alternative could work out a third cheaper, according to comparative costings by cloud provider Memset

Ditching VMware and moving to open source alternatives such as Xen could yield the government bumper cost savings, cloud supplier Memset has asserted. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude spoke...

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