May, 2025
The cloud industry has evolved significantly over the years, with VMware standing out as a key player in cloud computing, its reputation in the market helped it gain significant market share and facilitated a successful acquisition by tech giant Broadcom in November 2023. It has been over a year since this happened and, as with all acquisitions, it prompted companies to consider how it might impact their requirements.
Broadcom implemented several changes to VMware’s cloud offering, including sunsetting the option to buy perpetual VMware in 2024, terminating OEM agreements and ending support contacts. Most recently it announced its licence changes whereby it is raising the minimum core licensing requirements to 72 cores.
While these changes have created some uncertainty, they have also driven innovation in the private and hybrid cloud environment, with many organizations looking at VMware based cloud platforms from 3rd party providers to maintain the VMware skills they have in house whilst also reviewing how to innovate in other ways in the cloud and reflecting on what they want from cloud-based solutions.