The rapid changes Broadcom instituted after buying virtualization stalwart VMware for $61 billion in late 2023 continue to shape the virtualization and cloud spaces, with some enterprises facing significant higher pricing, new licensing plans, and bunding options looking for alternatives, vendors offering them alternatives, and companies rolling out plans to help with the migrations. …
Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …
We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. …
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …
Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …
In the ongoing discussions about the still-evolving world of hybrid cloud, the focus tends to be on what enterprises are doing within their own on-premises datacenters – and private clouds – and their work with public cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Before founding software-defined networking startup PlumGrid and then moving to VMware when it bought his company in 2016, Pere Monclus spent almost 12 years with Cisco Systems at a time when while much of enterprise networking was still in the corporate datacenter, the shift to network virtualization and the migration to the cloud were getting underway. …
Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …
The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but multiple public clouds, private clouds, colocation facilities, telecommunications sites, and the edge. …
Enterprises have been shifting many of their workloads into the cloud to take advantage of the scalability, efficiencies, and economics those environments offer. …
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