VMware is Dead - Broadcom Acquisition

Since Broadcom acquired VMware we have seen a radical reorganisation of the company; eliminating products, packaging together what little is left and ratcheting up the prices giving consumers little choice but to plan their exit from the ecosystem.
CEO Chris Piggott and HTO Ryan Tracey discuss what has happened, how it affected us and what we recommend to move forward.

0:00 Intro
0:38 What has happened to VMware?
3:26 Why did Broadcom move so fast?
4:44 What does this change mean for VMware customers?
6:32 What is Broadcom's track record?
7:40 How has this change impacted Synextra?
8:48 Are there any real benefits to clients now that Broadcom has taken over?
11:11 What's next?
12:46 Considering the future, is there anything to stop more price increases?
13:28 What does Synextra recommend?
15:13 What is the future for techies?

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[davidgouge]

Broadcom is where software goes to die. --- Former Broadcom/Symantec Engineer --

[jaysdood]

Broadcom have decided they are going to claw back 80% of the purchase price within the first 8 years because after that the product will be dead.

[bfwebster]

This reminds me of Computer Associates years (decades) ago, whose financial model was buying up niche software vendors and living off the licensing fees of entrenched customers.

[vincei]

I remember over 20 years ago installing VMWare workstation for the first time, it was magical. Today hearing the name VMWare makes my skin crawl. Props to all the great engineers that worked on those products. Your management and Broadcom not so much.

[stagefan]

Broadcom seems to be following the old Martin Shkreli playbook.

[TheCynysterMind]

Symantec Ghost (the disk imaging Pretty Good Protection.... Verisign.... and now VM
Been a customer of these products for years ... then a company comes in and buys them seemingly only to destroy them

[metamorphic]

Xenserver 8+, Hyper-V and Proxmox are all good options for replacing VMware, even for some of the more advanced features.

[edbouhl]

The push to ‘the cloud’ reminds me of the push to ‘just in time’ supply chains back in the 1990s. It’s great when everything is humming along. It’s a crisis when it’s not. Except now EVERYTHING can be brought to a stop (can you say ‘CrowdStrike’?). That’s not even taking into account whatever electronic warfare plagues the superpowers are honing.

[lkfng]

You failed to mention XCP-ng based on XenServer (VMware competitor) with a direct feature set is available. Xen Hypervisor is quite mature as VMware as this is the Hypervisor that AWS used for years.

[tcpnetworks]

Our server team have already started at accelerating the removal of the product. 300 servers - all to be moved off to another service.

[gxtoast]

Broadcom are a platinum member of the World Economic Forum and are active in the implementation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This purchase is about applying more pressure on the industry to move companies into the cloud.

[Locutus]

I heard that Broadcom just plans to hike prices continuously. They don't care about losing marketshare or customers. The will be customers that have huge ecosystems with Broadcom that they can't rip it out.

[riba]

I tried downloading vmware workstation, the process made quit just after 3 steps

[siennathesane]

I’m a former VMware/Pivotal employee and the entire acquisition made me so sad

[MadMonk]

At VM Explore this year, I saw what I once thought was an impossibility: a big slide that read "The Future of the Enterprise is Private", along with another that showed that 83% of enterprises plat to bring workloads back into their private cloud and off the public cloud. As someone who never jumped into the cloud, I found that quite amusing.

[snizhanaprotas]

Broadcom's VMware changes pushed me to switch to OpenNebula. It's open source, flexible, and vendor-neutral, and it DOES have enterprise-grade features and support

[aglandorf]

2:57 we still waiting for quotes, asked 2 different sellers in Germany, no one could provide anything. Evev buyin VMware Workstation license has not been processed since

[hlm]

We don’t have a lot but we have a good few on site VMware systems, this in connection with the windows 11 requirements has given me quite a headache. But I it made me go out and have a look a round and Proxmox to the rescue.

[MuhammadShehzad-wy]

Could you please guide me on how to download the license key for ESXi 8.0

[kjstech]

Proxmox, XCP-NG, Red Hat Openshift, Hyper-V, go cloud, etc.... Looking at all of the above.