{"id":3210,"date":"2025-12-18T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/vmware-sues-allstate-over-alleged-obstruction-of-software-licensing-audit\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:14:09","slug":"vmware-sues-allstate-over-alleged-obstruction-of-software-licensing-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/vmware-sues-allstate-over-alleged-obstruction-of-software-licensing-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware sues Allstate over alleged obstruction of software licensing audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{8ab4aa4a-9f47-4d02-8e0f-e626ca962fa5}{211}\" paraid=\"1359008968\">The relationship\u00a0reportedly soured\u00a0in 2025. VMware says that on March 4, 2025, it issued a formal audit notice to Allstate under the Master Agreement\u2019s audit clause, telling Allstate that any changes in its environment during the license review process had to be reported promptly. After an introductory call, VMware emailed Allstate on April 11, 2025, saying that audit workstream teams would reach out to schedule kick\u2011offs. VMware\u2019s audit partner, Connor Consulting, then contacted Allstate on April 16, 2025, and later held an audit kick\u2011off call on May 5, 2025, providing a technical questionnaire, a deployment detail\u00a0workbook\u00a0and scripts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship\u00a0reportedly soured\u00a0in 2025. VMware says that on March 4, 2025, it issued a formal audit notice to Allstate under the Master Agreement\u2019s audit clause, telling Allstate that any changes in its environment during the license review process had to be reported promptly. After an introductory call, VMware emailed Allstate on April 11, 2025, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1513,1361,1950,1949,1948,1207,1258,1947],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-alleged","tag-allstate","tag-audit","tag-licensing","tag-obstruction","tag-software","tag-sues","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}