Broadcom trims VMware portfolio to 4 core products, plans $1B spending cut
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• None Broadcom trimmed the VMware portfolio down from over 8,000 products to four core offerings since finalizing its acquisition of the virtualization software company in November, . Enterprise customers have been rocked by abrupt and major changes in VMware licensing and product bundling practices since the acquisition. “We have a whole Microsoft Teams channel that is just VMware alternatives because we get asked about it so much,” Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester, told CIO Dive. Since the acquisition, Broadcom has closed deals with nearly 3,000 of VMware’s largest 10,000 customers, enabling them to “build a self-service virtual private cloud on-prem,” Tan said. “The big selling point we have, as I indicated, is the fact that were not just trying to keep customers kind of stuck on just server or compute virtualization,” Tan said.
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