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OpenStack is ready for the VMware refugees
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de facto standard for
“I did not have ‘VMware sparks OpenStack resurgence’ on my 2024 bingo card,” OpenInfra Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce told me earlier this year. He also noted that in some companies, including a German automaker he couldn’t mention by name, the mandate is now to stand up new projects on OpenStack, even while the finance team may be working on one last VMware contract extension. If companies bet the entire infrastructure of their business on a certain vendor and suddenly their bill goes up 10x, he said, and the partners you worked with are cutting their programs, that’s not a good look.
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