Cloud Becoming Vital For VMware Modernization
Broadcom, Monday, August 25th, 2025
Businesses are experiencing an increase in their VMware pricing. Could modernization with public cloud provide businesses with the cost efficiency they need?
Since the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, 72% of organizations have reported a cost increase in their hypervisor environment due to changes in their provider's licensing model.
In response, businesses explored multiple options to mitigate these cost increases. Recent research by Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, a division of Informa TechTarget, can shed light on the more popular response strategies.
Most businesses have landed on a multiprong approach. IT leaders have chosen strategies that encompass a combination of increasing virtualization budgets (45%), modernizing applications to operate in container-based environments (39%) and shifting workloads to an alternative hypervisor (29%).