Amid customer dissatisfaction around Broadcom’s VMware takeover, rivals have been attempting to lure customers from the leading virtualization firm. One in all VMware’s biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of hundreds of VMware customers.
Speaking at a press briefing at Nutanix’s .NEXT conference in Chicago this week, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said that “about 30,000 customers” have migrated from VMware to the rival platform, pointing to customer disapproval over Broadcom’s VMware strategy, SDxCentral, a London-based IT publication, reported today.
“I believe there’s little doubt that the client sentiment continues to be negative about Broadcom,” Ramaswami said, per SDxCentral.
Since Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023, quite a few VMware users have sought to cut back or end their reliance on VMware technologies. Essentially the most common drivers for migrations are that VMware is getting too expensive; users are being forced to bundle products; the corporate ended perpetual licenses; and VMware has grow to be harder to work with after Broadcom culled channel partners.
Broadcom’s strategy has made VMware unaffordable or impractical for many small- to medium-size businesses (SMBs) and narrowed VMware’s focus to enterprise-size customers.
Nutanix hasn’t specified how lots of the shoppers that it got from VMware are SMBs or enterprise-sized; although, adoption is said to be strongest amongst mid-market customers as Nutanix also tries wooing larger customers, often by starting with partial deployments.
During this week’s press briefing, Ramaswami reportedly said that a few of the customers that moved from VMware to Nutanix through the latter’s most up-to-date fiscal quarter represented Nutanix’s “strongest quarterly recent logo additions in eight years.”
“Many of the logos got here from our typical VMware migrations on to the [hyperconverged infrastructure] platform,” he said.
In the course of the Nutanix conference, Brandon Shaw, Nutanix VP and head of technology services, said that Western Union has been migrating from VMware to Nutanix for six months, The Register reported. The financial services company is moving 900 to 1,200 applications across 3,900 cores.
Shaw said that Western Union has been exploring recent IT suppliers to assist it grow to be more customer-focused. Despite Broadcom’s history of “decent lines of communication” with Western Union, Shaw said that Western Union had “challenges partnering with them.”