“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs

For many small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), VMware has become too expensive.

Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualization firm brought the end of perpetual license sales and the arrival of pricey, stacked, subscription-based bundles that priced out many SMBs.

The most obvious is VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware’s flagship private cloud bundle that has been Broadcom’s primary focus since taking over VMware. Many SMBs find that VCF is unaffordable and stuffed with unnecessary offerings. However, numerous customers have reported online that VMware sales representatives have still pushed them toward VCF, with some claiming that sales reps have told them that the lower-priced edition of VMware’s virtualization platform, vSphere Standard, was no longer available.

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VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

Tottenham Hotspur, a professional soccer team that’s part of the Premier League, has saved over 85 percent in licensing fees by replacing its stadium's VMware instance with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) virtualization software.

Tottenham hasn’t disclosed which VMware products it used or how much it previously paid the Broadcom firm.

The soccer organization confirmed this week to The Register that it has moved its stadium's server, storage, and networking infrastructure to HPE solutions delivered through HPE's hybrid cloud management platform, GreenLake. That is all “underpinned by" VME and HPE's OpsRamp software for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Rob Pickering, Tottenham's CTO, told the publication, with HPE in charge of the hybrid cloud-managed service.

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How to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux LTS

How do I install VirtualBox application on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux LTS system?

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Shell script to set up an LXD (Linux Containers) VM lab for testing purpose

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How to install VirtualBox 6 on Fedora Linux 29

I am a new Fedora Linux user. How can I download and install Oracle VirtualBox 6 on my Fedora Linux 29 workstations?

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How to create snapshots with lxc command for LXD

I need to save the state of my existing app running on LXD before I push new Python-based app. How do I create snapshots with lxc command for LXD based Linux container?

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