Broadcom can't afford to get distracted with servicing those small businesses after laying off thousands of vmware employees. They'll have to make sure the handful of remaining vmware employees focus on milking their biggest customers instead.
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
149 points (98.1% liked)
Technology
59312 readers
5184 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Step 1: Fail at trying to acquire Qualcomm
Step 2: Successfully acquire CA Technologies, keeping all those mainframe companies on their mainframes for exorbitant fees
Step 3:
In 2019, Broadcom was announced the fifth best performing stock of the 2010s, with a total return of 1,956%.
Step 4: Aquire VMware, so now you own the business of people trying to get out of mainframes
Step 5: As you said, milk the huge enterprises with critical technology stuck in either mainframes or virtualization of their tech because they would rather pay the monthly fees than the upfront investment of moving to more modern systems
And they will do Vmware partners again. With hand selected partners
As an enterprise, I would not add any more dependencies on a vendor who rug pulled a block of their customers. We use VMware, we use practically everyone to some degree, and at least at my shop every team works with more than one stack so it's not like the talent is locked in. This is a huge black mark for BROADCOM next time a team is starting a project or program in general.
That being said, the decision is understandable because VMware's days are numbered: they were instrumental to moving from on-prem to the cloud, but I cannot actually think of any use cases where we used them for anything NEW.
And that's why I prefer KVM, even in corporate environments: I don't need to care about licensing and dropped support.
The HA, vMotion, DRS and other features.
But I agree. KVM gets better every year. Proxmox is an excellent example of what is possible with KVM.
Proxmox is getting there.
HA: I implemented HA recently and even without a SAN or Ceph, you can get HA with ZFS replication to work. I have it HAing my OPNsense router amongst other VMs, and I've had it fail over flawlessly when a SAS card in one node shit the bed and dropped the node. I didn't even notice it had failed over to another node until I looked at the logs.
Vmotion: Live migration has worked well for a long time, doesn't even drop a ping. I move nodes all the time for node upgrades and have never seen it fail.
DRS: I haven't seen this work yet and I only run 3 nodes with light workloads, so I can't speak to how well it works. But it's been there since 7.3
PBS: this is a worthy competitor to Veeam. Great dedup, replication sync for backup, restores are painless at the file and the guest level.
Get back to me when I can install it on Rocky or alpine.
Cant hack paper
Why did they even bother acquiring them? I'm lost.
Patents?
To squeeze the hell out of it while it dies. They're betting that people can't move quickly off the technology, and jacking up license costs by 30%
Please let all VMware employee(only the most worthy) move and create a new company that makes the same product. Call it zmware or virtual ware and change up the ui a bit but steal all those customers (like me) right back
Google envy?
Google has broadcom envy to be honest. This is their MO
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Exclusive Broadcom is tossing the majority of VMware's Cloud Services Providers as part of its shakeup of the virtualization titan's partner programs, say sources, leaving customers unclear who their IT supplier will be.
A month later we revealed that Broadcom intended to discontinue VMware's channel program, and that some solution providers/ resellers would be transitioned to its own scheme, but on an invitation-only basis, from February.
Chatter among some in the industry is that Broadcom is only interested in keeping the largest and most profitable customers, and the company simply doesn't care about the smaller users and the providers that service them.
"This all sounds very much like Broadcom taking an aggressive approach to its route to market and focusing on those partners that can deliver growth and significant revenue," said Omdia chief analyst Roy Illsley.
This would be ironic as Broadcom itself used the spin that its takeover of VMware would actually lead to more competition in the cloud market, back when it was trying to sweet talk European Union antitrust regulators into giving it the go-ahead.
The notion that the Broadcom-VMware merger might stifle competition was precisely why various regulatory bodies around the globe decided to look closely at the deal before allowing it to proceed.
The original article contains 817 words, the summary contains 208 words. Saved 75%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!