The open source private cloud alternative is shaping up as a VMware escape hatch but most enterprises aren’t showing off their migrations yet.
Tesco has filed a £100 million lawsuit against Broadcom for breach of contract over software updates for vSphere perpetual licences. The filing is one of the most aggressive responses to the licence changes Broadcom has issued to encourage customers onto VMware Cloud Foundation.
Some organizations are sucking up the increased Broadcom licence costs, but many are looking for an alternative. Gartner expects over a third of the workloads currently running on VMware to move to other platforms by 2028.
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Broadcom may claim that no longer letting customers buy VMware licences from the hyperscale clouds it used to partner with is actually about ‘licence portability’.
But not everyone wants an (exorbitantly expensive) private cloud or to jump ship to another vendor. (Front…
