By BigGo Finance
Publication Date: 2026-11-04 22:35:00
Broadcom’s VMware is courting the small and midsize businesses it spent the past two years pushing away, launching a stripped-down virtualization product called vSphere Express that runs on no more than 128 processor cores.
The offering, announced Wednesday, is aimed at organizations that need basic server virtualization rather than a full private cloud stack. VMware will sell it as a per-core subscription, and a company spokesperson said the price will be “significantly lower” than the VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) bundle or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the flagship platform that has anchored the company’s strategy since Broadcom closed its acquisition in 2023. The spokesperson declined to give a dollar figure and directed customers to their local resellers for pricing and terms.
IT distributor TD Synnex lists vSphere Express at $9,600 a year for up to 128 cores. That figure does not scale down for smaller deployments, which keeps the product out of reach for some of the…
