Key points
- Defence has been mandated to reduce its use of VMware ahead of its licensing costs being doubled, sources told iTnews.
- The mandate was reportedly issued around September last year, months before a $178 million VMware licence renewal was revealed.
- Cost is understood not to be the only factor behind the move, with sovereignty also emerging as a concern.
Defence is actively reducing its use of VMware under a “mandate” issued in the lead-up to the department’s licensing costs being doubled.
Sources with knowledge of the situation told iTnews that they had “been…

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