With Docker and Kubernetes all the rage these days, and Kubevirt for VM, why is Vmware still relevant? 20% of customers are going to migrate from Vmware!!!
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The vSphere-based virtual machine is going to be relevant for a long time. There's going to be a lot of apps that are going to be too risky to look at refactoring or doing anything crazy like Kubevirt.
I'd worry about many of the other products having forward-looking relevance but vSphere VM's are going to exist for many decades to come.
Tanzu products leadership is completely sh-t. They live in their fools paradise and don’t know anything what customers want. To get tanzu successful products/ R&D leadership, pm’s must be fired.
"Customers do not want to pay a massive premium for lesser functionality than they can get via opensource alternatives"
I would love to hear what you think these superior open source tools are that can do what Tanzu Application Platform does across MULTIPLE cloud providers. Multiple being the key word here.
Don't ask the employees who are clueless about the company's weak balance sheet.
FYI, it's not wise to anticipate that CIOs will continue to buy VMW after this fiasco.
Some VMW (10+ year) employees may still be in denial. Fear of change will do that.
Ask the customers who are helping to push revenues higher and higher every year.
Lots of downvoting of the truth which is not surprising, it's scary! Tanzu, what a joke, and yes that includes the container products, not just pivotal. Customers do not want to pay a massive premium for lesser functionality than they can get via opensource alternatives. And you think that is going to get better when Broadcom raises prices? Other than vSphere and it's datacenter dominance VMware is done. Novell 2.0.
Come on guys, The damage is beyond containers and VMs. Regardless of how this drama unfolds, Broadcom or not, VMware is a mess moving forward
Why didn't you leave then? if you did why the heck are you commenting here?
VMware is the new Nokia!
It is not. Innovation is happening at the marketing level only.
VMware is the new BlackBerry. You know the story.
coz why else would you be here?
I've been in the industry for 2 decades and I don't see anything in the space as impressive
Where are the customers then?
That party is over, no $, no BU
It’s been long enough now, put the Tanzu k8s products out of their misery and pull the plug.
Yes Docker and Kubernetes are all the rage. That's where Tanzu comes in making VMware still very relevant in this space! I've been in the industry for 2 decades and I don't see anything in the space as impressive and the Tanzu suite for deploying kubernetes workloads across multiple clouds in an end to end manner.
Posts like this are just flat out stupid. You take a non-technical, vanilla opinion, sprinkle in click bait terms of other technologies impacting only a segment of the VMware portfolio and miss it with a article referencing predictions based on the Broadcom acquisition that may or may not go through.
This is a recipe for wasted time and lost brain cells. But kudos for being able to get me to waste 3 minutes on the cr-pper, pointing out how stupid this post is!
"There is still the need for on-prem virtualization."
Reminds me of the EUC BU defense, "there is still a need for legacy UEM and VDI"
So, that sums up the VMW business strategy for the last decade. Hope and pray that the status quo continues. The assumption: we'll bet our future on 'change' doesn't disrupt us.
Come on guys, The damage is beyond containers and VMs. Regardless of how this drama unfolds, Broadcom or not, VMware is a mess moving forward
So, 80% is irrelevant? Where did you go to businessschool?
You are not too tech-savy, right? Reading the buzzword-bingo here reminds me of a Dilbert-Comic... There is still the need for on-prem virtualization. And customers are not able to operate Containers (in large) on prem... And sadly, you sometimes are not allowed to drop all to the hyperscalers (ex - vmw here, now at hyperscaler)