By Denise Dubie
Publication Date: 2026-05-12 20:56:00
“Almost every large customer I talk to would like to have the option to move away from VMware/Broadcom,” says Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research. “Price increases and reduced support are driving this.”
HPE is introducing HPE Private Cloud, which the company says will help enterprise organizations that are modernizing their infrastructure and going beyond traditional virtualization environments. the offering unifies infrastructure, operations and data into a single-vendor solution to help customers reduce costs and manage risks, according to HPE. The platform also supports HPE Morpheus VM Essentials along with VMware environments and integrates with HPE Zerto Software, Veeam and HPE StoreOnce for backup, recovery and migration, according to the company.
“An operating model means a single pane of glass,” said Angel Penilla, vice president of private cloud engineering at HPE, in a press conference. “You are going to have a place where…