And… I’ve also been talking about VMWare after Broadcom acquired it and made changes to focus on its top customers. A survey of IT workers at North American VMware customers reveals widespread concerns and anxiety over Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. The survey indicates that customers expect significant price hikes, view the acquisition as disruptive to their IT strategy, and have concerns about Broadcom’s ownership. Despite these concerns, most respondents plan to stay with VMware, either partially or fully, citing factors such as the embedded nature of VMware in their infrastructures and the challenges of migrating mission-critical workloads. However, the survey suggests Broadcom could face backlash for months or even years.
In that landscape, StorMagic is launching its new hyper-converged infrastructure solution, SvHCI, which offers an alternative to VMware for edge and SMB environments. SvHCI combines hypervisor and virtual networking with StorMagic’s storage technology, providing high availability and reducing costs by up to 62%.
There won’t be a VMWare exodus… but there is an opportunity to leverage the changes where there is a business reason. Cost savings clearly will be one such reason.