Subscription shift forces Defence into $178m VMWare mega-deal


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Defence has consolidated its VMWare arrangements, including some perpetual licences, into a new almost $180 million mega deal after the virtualisation supplier’s shift to a subscription model.

The new three-year deal is more than three times Defence’s previous main licensing contract with VMWare, and pushes its spend on the software in the last decade to almost half a billion dollars.

Defence said the new arrangement provides it access to subscription …

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