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CTO Daily Dose - The licensing hidden cost of public cloud

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There’s not much technical difference between running a workload inside of you data center vs. in the cloud. With a few exceptions, If it runs in one x86 virtualized environment, it will run in the Public Cloud. However, licensing isn’t always straightforward. Take Windows 10 and Oracle as examples.