According to a report published this month by managed services firm Rimini Street, VMware customers are still weighing their options three years after Broadcom acquired the virtualization vendor. Roughly one-third of more than 250 VMware user organizations surveyed by Unisphere Research plan to move all their assets onto competing hypervisors within three years, while 48% said they will not adopt the VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud bundle. Broadcom’s shakeup of VMware’s partner ecosystem, along with licensing costs and product changes, is driving both migrations and hesitancy around VCF adoption. Nearly half of respondents expect to run some workloads on VMware alternatives in three years, and 82% foresee using a competing solution for at least some assets.
