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300 percent price hikes push disgruntled VMware customers toward Broadcom rivals

Ars Technica speaks with users and channel partners disgruntled by Broadcom’s changes.

He emphasized difficulties stemming from the amount of time required to create a new hypervisor cluster, conduct training, and deal with the differences in the way VMware alternatives perform and operate. Revirtualization is the "introduction of a replacement hypervisor-based virtualization technology and associated software for management and resilience for live migration and host-based recovery," Gartner's 2024 Hype Cycle explains. Revirtualization has penetrated 5 to 20 percent of the target market and can be "introduced due to commercial audit and license issues or vendor merger, acquisition, or divestiture," according to Gartner's report.

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