What alternatives are people considering to VMWARE or Broadcomm ?

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Head of Cloud & Platforms in Bankinga month ago

In reducing VMware’s footprint on premise we are moving to Proxmox.

CIO in Services (non-Government)a month ago

Azure Local

Director of Operationsa month ago

We are strongly encouraged by what we see from Nutanix, especially considering the other costs associated with VMWare, like compute and storage - the Nutanix costs are in line with or less than VMWare. This was especially true for us as the hardware and SAN infrastructure for VMWare was aging and in need of replacement over the next year or so. The easy migration claims appear to be true as well. Per our CIO, we will never spend another dollar with Broadcom (which they don't care about) when our current contract expires. We anticipate signing with Nutanix in the spring of 2026 or sooner.

Head of Technology in Energy and Utilities7 months ago

We have been running on Nutanix for 3-4years now, works great

Director of IT in Energy and Utilities7 months ago

We considered staying with VMWare, OpenShift, Azure Stack, Nutanix, Hyper-V, and Oracle virtualization. Based on previous experiences, Gartner conversations and presentations, and various other things, we chose Nutanix.

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