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New SMB-friendly subscription tier may be too late to stop VMware migrations

Broadcom acquisition was a “wake-up call” for VMware-dependent SMBs.

“The challenge with much of the VMware by Broadcom changes to date and before the announcement [of the vSphere Enterprise Plus subscription tier] is that it also forced many organizations to a much higher offering and much more components to a stack that they were previously uninterested in deploying," Rick Vanover, Veeam's product strategy VP, told Ars. But the new subscription tier could be viewed as a plus for SMBs that were being forced to buy more VMware products than desired and typically have smaller IT budgets than enterprise-sized firms. "Many clients are looking.. at this [as] a wake-up call to how dependent they had become on a single vendor and are looking for more diversity in their on-premises environments, said Tony Harvey, a senior director analyst at Gartner.

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