Category Archives: Virtualization

Broadcom accommodates VMware customers with licenses; EU Commission sends questions

Posted on 2024-04-17 by guenni

[German]The ongoing criticism of VMware by Broadcom's licensing policy by customers may be having an impact. At least VMware by Broadcom has responded to the topic again with a blog post and wants to offer customers with perpetual licenses a … Continue reading →

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VMware news: Multi-year subscriptions only? End-user products distribution under Omnissa

Posted on 2024-04-14 by guenni

[German]Here are some news about VMware by Broadcom. I have just been told that VMware by Broadcom could "soon" only accept subscriptions with terms of 3 or 5 years – but this has probably not yet been finalized. And the … Continue reading →

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VMware users: Attention, portal migration to Broadcom on April 30, 2024

Posted on 2024-04-13 by guenni

[German]Brief information for administrators and users of VMware products. VMware by Broadcom has started to clean up its portfolio and change the licenses. For people who have not yet noticed this: At the end of April 2024, the old VMware … Continue reading →

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Analyses: VMware acts as planned with licenses; switching to alternatives a problem

Posted on 2024-04-12 by guenni

[German]In the last few days I have come across some information about VMware by Broadcom, which I would like to summarize in a small analysis here in the blog for the interested readership. On the one hand, it looks as … Continue reading →

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Massive price hike in license costs: Is Citrix now also copying the "Broadcom business approach"?

Posted on 2024-04-08 by guenni

[German]German blog reader has told me that there are substantial price hikes for license renewals of Citrix Virtual Desktop solutions or other Citrix products. The question is "does Citrix copies the Broadcom business approach". Advertising

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VMware plans two Cloud Foundation releases, can they do it? CISPE complaint filed

Posted on 2024-04-03 by guenni

[German]There are innovations from the VMware by Broadcom front. The company plans to publish two new releases of its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in 2024 and 2025. These should be better tailored to "customer needs" and simplify their virtualization job. … Continue reading →

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Proxmox releases import wizard for VMware ESXi VMs

Posted on 2024-04-02 by guenni

[German]Small piece of information for administrators in the VMware ESXi virtualization environment who have been thinking about migrating from this manufacturer to other platforms since the takeover by Broadcom. The developers of the Proxmox platform introduced an import wizard for … Continue reading →

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Microsoft on the future of Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V

Posted on 2024-03-27 by guenni

[German]Hyper-V is a virtualization product from Microsoft. The company now sees a "bright future" for Hyper-V on Windows Server, including on Windows Server 2025. At least that is the message that Jack Woolsey from Microsoft and his team announced at … Continue reading →

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VMware by Broadcom: (Vain) hope of the partners for a White Label "lifeline"?

Posted on 2024-03-26 by guenni

[German]Ever since Broadcom terminated the contracts of its VMware partners, streamlined its product portfolio and switched everything to (very expensive) subscriptions in the VMware Cloud, there has been a great deal of uproar. Now some small and medium sized cloud … Continue reading →

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Is Broadcom going downhill with its VMware measures? Silent layoffs and CISPE calls for EU measures

Posted on 2024-03-22 by guenni

[German]Are we currently witnessing how Broadcom is driving virtualization specialist VMware downhill? Instead of earing huge revenues, the vendor will eventually be faced with a shambles? I have often reported on the trials and tribulations of Broadcom's management. Now I … Continue reading →

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