Award-winning VMware Pinnacle partner Insight Enterprises has been deauthorized to sell VMware licenses and VMware Cloud Foundation services in North America in a move that has shocked other solution providers and channel executives.
When Broadcom deauthorized thousands of VMware partners last year, it directed customers seeking renewals to award-winning partner Insight Enterprises as one of three national solution providers primed to pick up the business.
One year later it is Insight, which had been one of an elite group of top-tier VMware Pinnacle partners, that has been deauthorized by Broadcom, CRN has learned.
“Insight was recently informed by Broadcom that we are no longer authorized to resell VMware licenses or Broadcom-funded VCF [VMware Cloud Foundation] Entitlement Services in North America,” an Insight Enterprises spokesperson…
