Broadcom‘s 2023 acquisition of VMware fundamentally altered the enterprise virtualization market. What followed were dramatic price increases, forced bundling of unwanted products, and the elimination of perpetual licensing options that many enterprises relied on for budget predictability.
Gartner now projects that by 2028, cost concerns will drive 70% of enterprise-scale VMware customers to migrate at least half of their virtual workloads to alternative platforms. This creates a compelling market opportunity.
Cisco, Nutanix, and Pure Storage recently answered that question with an integrated solution combining each company’s core strengths into a pre-validated platform called FlashStack with Nutanix.
Nutanix Embraces Storage Independence
Nutanix built its reputation on hyperconverged infrastructure, where systems tightly bundle compute, storage, and virtualization into appliances managed as a single unit. This approach simplifies operations but can also create scaling constraints…
