“Adverse” views of Broadcom driving 1000’s of VMware migrations, rival says

Amid buyer dissatisfaction round Broadcom’s VMware takeover, rivals have been making an attempt to lure clients from the main virtualization agency. One among VMware’s largest opponents, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of 1000’s of VMware clients.

Talking at a press briefing at Nutanix’s .NEXT convention in Chicago this week, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami stated that “about 30,000 clients” have migrated from VMware to the rival platform, pointing to buyer disapproval over Broadcom’s VMware technique, SDxCentral, a London-based IT publication, reported at this time.

“I feel there’s little question that the client sentiment continues to be unfavourable about Broadcom,” Ramaswami stated, per SDxCentral.

Since Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023, quite a few VMware customers have sought to cut back or finish their reliance on VMware applied sciences. The commonest drivers for migrations are that VMware is getting too costly; customers are being compelled to bundle merchandise; the corporate ended perpetual licenses; and VMware has turn into more durable to work with after Broadcom culled channel companions.

Broadcom’s technique has made VMware unaffordable or impractical for many small- to medium-size companies (SMBs) and narrowed VMware’s focus to enterprise-size clients.

Nutanix hasn’t specified how lots of the clients that it obtained from VMware are SMBs or enterprise-sized; though, adoption is stated to be strongest amongst mid-market clients as Nutanix additionally tries wooing bigger clients, usually by beginning with partial deployments.

Throughout this week’s press briefing, Ramaswami reportedly stated that a number of the clients that moved from VMware to Nutanix throughout the latter’s most up-to-date fiscal quarter represented Nutanix’s “strongest quarterly new emblem additions in eight years.”

“A lot of the logos got here from our typical VMware migrations on to the [hyperconverged infrastructure] platform,” he stated.

In the course of the Nutanix convention, Brandon Shaw, Nutanix VP and head of expertise companies, stated that Western Union has been migrating from VMware to Nutanix for six months, The Register reported. The monetary companies firm is transferring 900 to 1,200 purposes throughout 3,900 cores.

Shaw stated that Western Union has been exploring new IT suppliers to assist it turn into extra customer-focused. Regardless of Broadcom’s historical past of “first rate traces of communication” with Western Union, Shaw stated that Western Union had “challenges partnering with them.”