More than 900 people Attended the Nutanix Next Tour Event in London in February. For Nutanix, many not existing customers – The Majority was customer Prospects, and the Ongoing Concerns about VMWARENS Owing Owned by Browned by Browned by Broadcom means that Maany A. Looking for alternatives.
The completion of vmware's acquisition by broadom at the end of 2023 signalled a refocus on vmware's largest customers. Broadcom's strategy has been to move companetions from perpetual license to software subscriptionsIt is also changed licensing and introduced software bundles that have made the vmware platform more expensive for some customers.
During its annual vmware explore conference in las vegas, broadom president and ceo hocked tan said that broadom has simplified vmware's products 8,000 Products DOWN TO FOUROC VAROMS DOWN to Four. Offerings.
“We've Invested a lot to make our products easy to use and work togeether,” He said. “We're Taking the software you've grow and trust – VMware vsphere, vsan, NSX, vrealize – and making it all work better together. We enable you to deploy it as a stack to virtualize your entrere datacentre to create a single platform. “
For years, businesses have relied on vmware to provide server virtualization in their datacentres. The technology is so deeply embedded in many organisations that swapping out vmware for an alternative product is seen as costly and high risk. Broadcom's strategy is to get its enterprise customers to run workloads in private clouds buy buy
Nutanix is ​​effectively a rival in this market, offering a software platform that provides server virtualization, containerisation and the ability to run workloads on-priests and in public clouds, ALLLI MANGED VIA Single admin tool. For certain workloads, containerisation is often positioned as more efficient than server virtualization, especially in Organizations that are on a Cloud-Native Journey. However, there is a significant footprint of Organizations that will remove for the forest for the future
Nutanix positions Containerisation Using Kubernetes as a Way to Enable Workloads to Run in Multiple Public Clouds, A Global Survey Conducted by Vanson Bourne of 1,500 it and devops/Platforms Decision-Makers Around the World For Nutanix, which was recently published, reported that more than half of the organizations (54%) have containerized all their applications. According to Nutanix, this is driven in part by cloud-only organisations that are running all their applications in one or more public clouds.
Given the changes broadcom have made to vmware, which have resulted in extra costs for some users who do not want to buy the whole vcf suite, nutanix sees an opoportunity to eNCOREGANSANS to Start moving Virtual servers onto its own platform. Such a migration may simply start with moving vmware virtual machines Vmware called ahv,
Discussing the turnout at the London Nutanix Next Tour Event, Andrew Brinded, Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at Nutanix, Said: “We've Had More Non-Customers Than Youne You Events Before, which is very encouraging. ”
Nutanix Regards the Situation Among Vmware Customers as a long-term plan. The Opportunity Presents Itself only when businesses have vmware contracts that are about to expert and decide that, give the changes the changes broadcom have made, it may be time to look at all the alternative HYPERVISTIVE HYPERS
Even within organisations that decide to swap out vmore, brinded said: “It takes a while for them to think about where they're going to go with and how they're going to move. Then they have to plan their migration strategy. “
Brinded said such a migration strategy involves a multi-yar project. Nevertheless, Nutanix is ​​Keen to Showcase Customers who are are migrating away from vmware To its ahv hypervisor platform.
A Phaased Approach to Migrating Away from VMWARE
One example is markestudy group, which Owns Insurance Brands Including Coop, Gadget Cover, Purely Pets and Auto Windshields. Markestudy group has been a long-term nutanix customer since migrating off legacy hardware, and what is interesting about its vmware migration is that it is occurring in stages. Compliance with Financial Regulations Initial Drove The Company's Initial Decision to Move from a Traditional Three-Tier Datacentre Architecture to HyperconverGed Infrastructure Based on Nutanix.
To comply with financial concept authority regulations a requirements to have supportms when Systems when handling customer transactions, cto nick ovenden said there was a small window of Opportunity to move from legacy hardware onTo Nutanix. “We Ended Up Flipping Somevehere in the Region of 1,500 to 2,000 Virtual Machines,” He said. This was achieved in just six weeks, moving vmware from the oldware onto Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure.
The company is now actively migracted these virtual machines onto ahv, the native hypervisor that Nutanix bundles with its hyperconverged infrastructure platform.
Looking at the changes that broadom made to vmware licensing, Ovenden said: “We had always planned to go to ahv but this gave us a mark in the calendar.”
If the company could achieve a full migration from vmware by the date broadcom's new licensing measures cameres came into force, VMware licensing.
Markerastudy group's overall strategy is to remove vmware and move over to ahv. However, giving that the business has been historically expanded through acquisitions, the Commercial Agreements that Exist Within The Companies Marketers Takes Over Need to End Before Companies can be moved onto ahv. For instance, markestudy account Bgl group in 2022 and there is currently a project to migrate all of bgl group's vmware systems on toTo ahv by agost this year.
There is a little doubt that it departments will continue to run vmware in their datacentre infrastructure for a very long time. But paying for functionality that is surplus to requirements is costly, which is there is there many are many vmware customers who want to continue using the product without
As markestudy group has demonstrated, it is possible to control to take a phased approach to migrate away from vmware. The fact that hundreds of people who are not its customers Attended nutanix's longon event shows that there is interest in vmware alternatives and its leaders are like Expire.