HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter
Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape
HPE is taking advantage of VMware's expensive licensing changes by offering customers free use of its own VM Essentials product for a year, plus a $1 license for its Zerto data protection product to help ease migrations.
The jolly green giant announced the cheapies at the Partner Growth Summit staged alongside its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas, and framed them as a migration assistance program intended to arm channel partners who want to help customers reduce their financial risk when migrating virtualization platforms.
"One of the big things we see is that as customers are going through this journey on transforming their operating model, you end up with double expenses and so we're really pleased to announce the program around Morpheus and platform migration," said EVP and CTO Fidelma Russo.
"We are announcing that as...
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