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Broadcom’s prohibitive VMware prices create a learning “barrier,” IT pro says

Public schools ran to VMware during the pandemic. Now they’re running away.

Mohammad Haque, co-founder and CTO at Propeller, which sells a fully managed virtual desktop infrastructure platform built on Amazon Web Services, told Ars Technica that he's seen schools be forced to redirect IT resources that would have been spent on other tasks, like upgrading cybersecurity and exploring trends such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, to migrating off of VMware. The Indiana IT director said Dell suggested that the district could buy an entirely new stack of server hardware with new support, but budget limits, especially over the coming years, make this unreasonable. Dell has a long history of offering choice through a broad portfolio of technology partners and solutions, helping organizations to select the path that best aligns to their strategy, infrastructure needs, and long-term IT goals.

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