Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure
Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration
Organizations that decide to reduce their VMware footprints, or quit Virtzilla entirely, will emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure.
That’s the view of Paul Delory, a research vice president with analyst firm Gartner, who yesterday told the company’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney that there is no technical reason for VMware users to adopt a rival hypervisor, and that no vendor offers a one-for-one replacement for the virtualization pioneer’s flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) suite.
But Delory said Broadcom’s licensing policies, which see it only sell VCF, mean VMware users’ licensing bills typically rise by 300 to 400 percent. Broadcom argues that the full-stack private clouds VCF makes it possible to build are so efficient that VCF quickly pays for itself.
The analyst told the conference he thinks those contemplating...
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