With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Clod Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative
With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Clod Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative
During the weekend of the OpenInfra Summit Europe in Paris, a whole day was dedicated to VMware migration. Open source developers lined up throughout the day to showcase how their products could be used to migrate VMware virtual machines to open source alternatives.
As Jimmy McArthur, director of business development at OpenInfra, noted, the Broadcom acquisition of VMware has led to software licence price changes, which have resulted in many existing VMware customers seeing a significantly increased annual VMware operating cost. He warned that when a provider of key IT infrastructure software has this kind of leverage, this could easily happen again.
While it is entirely possible for IT departments with an alternative to VMware, such as the AHV from Nutanix or the open source Proxmox Virtual Environment, in the opening keynote of the VMware Migration Day, McArthur discussed the OpenStack approach, which relies on multiple open source products: “The OpenInfra way has an ecosystem of partners providing a healthy open source alternative.”
Naveen Chhabra, principal analyst at Forrester, said: “At the time of acquisition, customers were very concerned and anxious, then they were angry and felt intimidated.
