The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom and subsequent licensing changes have forced many businesses to pay two to three times more for virtualisation, according to Gartner – prompting many IT leaders to rethink.
The cost implications of VMware licensing changes have left many organisations in “a very painful place,” says Rhys Powell, senior black belt, Managed Cloud Services at Red Hat, who was speaking as part of a CIO webcast series. Organisations now face pressure to adapt quickly and consider alternative paths like cloud-native approaches, Powell explains.
Avoiding vendor lock-in is a key lesson that organisations are taking away from the VMware episode.
Powell says: “The very first thing that most of these organisations say when we’re having a conversation around this is, ‘we do not want to get trapped again.’’
A containerised software platform like OpenShift helps them avoid repeating this mistake, Powell says, because it allows organisations…