Cisco WOM Standard License 5-Year Subscription
This Cisco WOM Standard license subscription provides essential platform capabilities for businesses requiring robust virtual machine management over a 5-year term.
- License Term: 5-year subscription ensuring continuous access to software features and support.
- Coverage Scope: Standard license tier for Cisco WOM, applicable to 2001+ virtual machines.
- Billing Model: Subscription-based, offering predictable operational expenses.
- Value Proposition: Enables essential virtual machine operations and compliance with Cisco's software licensing.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering is a 5-year subscription license for Cisco WOM (Workload Optimization Manager) in its Standard tier, designed for environments managing 2001 or more virtual machines. It unlocks core functionalities for optimizing and managing virtualized workloads, ensuring efficient resource utilization and operational continuity.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market to enterprise organizations utilize this license to maintain compliance, gain access to critical management features, and ensure the ongoing operation of their virtualized infrastructure. It integrates into existing data center or cloud environments where virtual machine density is high.
- Platform Management: Enables centralized control and monitoring of virtual machine workloads.
- Resource Optimization: Facilitates efficient allocation and utilization of computing resources.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensures adherence to Cisco's software licensing requirements.
- Operational Continuity: Supports the ongoing function of critical virtualized applications.
- Scalable Capacity: Designed for environments with a significant number of virtual machines (2001+).
This Cisco WOM Standard license subscription is ideal for businesses needing predictable costs and essential virtual machine management capabilities for their growing infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Virtual Machine Workload Management
Enable teams to gain centralized visibility and control over a large number of virtual machines. Streamline the deployment, monitoring, and optimization of virtualized resources to enhance performance and reduce operational overhead.
data center virtualization, private cloud deployments, server consolidation projects, hybrid cloud environments
Ensure Software Licensing Compliance
Automate the tracking and management of Cisco WOM software entitlements to prevent licensing gaps and potential audit risks. Maintain adherence to vendor agreements and ensure all virtual machine instances are properly licensed.
regulated industry IT, multi-site business operations, IT asset management programs, virtualized application hosting
Optimize Resource Utilization
Streamline the process of identifying underutilized or overutilized virtual machine resources. Enable IT professionals to make data-driven decisions for resource allocation, improving efficiency and reducing unnecessary infrastructure costs.
cost optimization initiatives, performance tuning projects, capacity planning processes, IT infrastructure modernization
Key Features
Standard Edition Features
Access core functionalities for virtual machine management and optimization without the complexity or cost of higher tiers.
Subscription Licensing
Benefit from predictable operational expenses and continuous access to software updates and support over the 5-year term.
Scalable for Large Deployments
Designed to effectively manage environments with 2001 or more virtual machines, ensuring performance and control.
Cisco WOM Platform
Utilize a proven platform for workload optimization, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of your virtual infrastructure.
5-Year Term
Secure long-term licensing and operational planning, reducing the frequency of procurement cycles.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, compliance, and high availability for their virtualized trading platforms and customer data management systems, making efficient workload optimization critical.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain strict compliance with regulations like HIPAA while ensuring continuous operation of patient management systems and medical imaging platforms, often hosted on virtualized infrastructure.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on virtualized environments for operational technology (OT) and IT systems, demanding high performance and reliability for production control and supply chain management applications.
Education & Research
Educational institutions manage large, dynamic virtual environments for research computing, student services, and administrative functions, requiring scalable and cost-effective resource management solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco WOM?
Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) is a software solution designed to optimize the performance, capacity, and compliance of virtualized environments. It helps manage virtual machines and their underlying resources.
What does the 'Standard' edition include?
The Standard edition provides essential features for workload management and optimization, suitable for businesses with significant virtual machine deployments. Specific feature sets are detailed in Cisco's product documentation.
What is the billing model for this license?
This license is sold as a subscription, meaning you pay periodically (typically annually or upfront for the term) for the right to use the software over the specified duration, rather than purchasing it outright.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.