Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization pioneer
VMware in late 2023 sent ripples through the tech industry that unsurprisingly
focused on the skyrocketing price increases of as much as 300 percent to more
than 1,000 percent and a sharp turn away from perpetual licenses to
subscription-based licensing sent customers – many of them smaller or midsize
companies – looking for a safe harbor elsewhere.
And there were plenty of competitors, from Nutanix to Red
Hat to Hewlett
Packard Enterprise, throwing out pitches and programs to entice those
organizations to see them as their landing spot. It drew a lot of headlines,
and rightfully so. Changes were happening quickly at a stalwart of the modern
datacenter.
Through the noise, Broadcom and VMware executives steadily beat
the drum of their strategy to establish
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the foundation for what VMware would be
going forward, a more streamlined company that would focus on what they saw…
