Most VMware customers nonetheless “actively lowering their VMware footprint,” survey finds

Migrations are ongoing

Broadcom launched modifications to VMware which can be particularly unfriendly to small- and-medium-sized companies (SMBs), and Gartner beforehand predicted that 35 % of VMware workloads would migrate else by 2028.

CloudBolt’s survey additionally examined how respondents are migrating workloads off of VMware. At the moment, 36 % of contributors stated they migrated 1–24 % of their surroundings off of VMware. One other 32 % stated that they’ve migrated 25–49 %; 10 % stated that they’ve migrated 50–74 % of workloads; and a pair of % have migrated 75 % or extra of workloads. 5 % of respondents stated that they haven’t migrated from VMware in any respect.

Amongst migrated workloads, 72 % moved to public cloud infrastructure as a service, adopted by Microsoft’s Hyper-V/Azure stack (43 % of respondents).

Total, 86 % of respondents “are actively lowering their VMware footprint,” CloudBolt’s report stated.

“The concern has cooled, however the strain hasn’t—and most groups at the moment are making sensible strikes to construct leverage and optionality—even when for some that features the conclusion {that a} portion of their property by no means strikes off VMware,” Mark Zembal, CloudBolt’s chief advertising officer, stated in an announcement.

Whereas bundled merchandise, fewer choices, resellers, and better costs make VMware more durable to justify for a lot of, particularly SMB prospects, migration is a protracted course of with its personal prices, together with time spent researching options and constructing related expertise. CloudBolt’s reported multi-platform complexity (52 %) and expertise gaps (33 %) topped the checklist of migration challenges.

“As organizations diversify away from VMware, they inherit the operational burden of managing a number of platforms with totally different operational and governance fashions,” the report reads.

Whereas firms decide one of the best methods to restrict their dependence on VMware, Broadcom can nonetheless earn cash from smaller prospects it doesn’t deem mandatory for the long run.

“Their technique was by no means to maintain each buyer,” CloudBolt’s report says. “It was to maximise worth from these nonetheless on the platform whereas the market slowly diversifies. The mannequin assumes churn and it’s constructed to make the economics work anyway. Broadcom has performed the mathematics—and so they’re high quality with it.”