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Another cloud provider bails on VMware after receiving a 900-percent price hike


Private server provider Beeks Group, headquartered in the UK, offers virtual and physical servers to companies in the financial sector. The Register notes that the firm has...

Before that, an Australian firm dumped VMware after Broadcom hit it with a rate hike 10-15 times higher than it had previously paid. If you're keeping score, Broadcom has lost at least 45,000 VMs to competitors due to unreasonable price hikes, presumably chasing a quick ROI in a$61 billion investment. The method to Broadcom's madness is that it knows that the cost of migrating is often more than paying the expensive rate hike, especially for small to mid-sized businesses with less capital.

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