The surge in VMWare license costs is bound to be comical. It's intriguing to ponder whether sizable enterprises will consider shifting to alternative solutions, but the question remains: what would be their destination of choice?
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Customers that are running Microsoft Windows Datacenter can get HyperV for cheap.
Was that a new thing starting today or has it always been the case?
Cost of VMware is a small portion of overall CIO budget. There is people salary, AWS bill, Microsoft, Oracle, SalesForce, laptop, mobile phone and monthly subscription. All of them have been going up. Do you go avd change all those too, or just VMware?
In the meantime, CMO and CFO spend like there is no tomorrow.
Customers that are running Microsoft Windows Datacenter can get HyperV for cheap.
Nutanix, and RedHat onprem. The migration off vSphere to AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle will only be expedited by future price increases and lowering of support that are part of Broadcom's well established playbook.
I'm looking forward to hocks book, top 10 tips to destroy a company. He's an expert. No wonder he is up to his eye ba--s in debt.
I imagine smaller shops will probably move to Nutanix (if they decouple AHV, which they might). AWS, Azure....
former cloudhealth early engineer here. this started almost in tandem with the vmware acquisition - the company culture had been all about small- to medium-size customers, up through the point where due diligence started with vmware. we were told in no uncertain words that vmware would roll the red carpet out for big names, and that our platform needed to be ready for it. i stuck it out for about a year and a half, post-acquisition, where we tried to figure out and build a "cloudhealth enterprise edition" of sorts.
i was surprised that vmware kept the "cloudhealth" branding as long as they did - it turned out that the brand actually had some cache that vmware wanted to hang on to. but it was formally dropped last year, in favor of "vmware aria cloud cost control," or some equally overdescribed thing.
This is really tough for the careers of many ESXi experts in big companies. Some employers will completely stop investing in private cloud (on-premises) and shift everything to the public cloud. We just stopped using another software that Broadcom acquired.
RedHat, under IBM's ownership, had a significant opportunity to capture a portion of this market share. However, in a move typical of IBM-owned RedHat, they made an inexplicable decision to withdraw from the Onprem Hypervisor space, focusing solely on "Cloud." This unexpected announcement to discontinue the product caught many organizations and vendors, including Veeam, off guard. There were expectations that RHV would serve as a viable replacement, and now, there is anticipation that Veeam might consider adding support for alternative options like Proxmox, XCP, direct KVM, or something similar.