Ninety percent want out

A study by Rimini Street found ninety percent of VMware decision-makers are considering alternatives purely based on licensing costs under Broadcom ownership.

Broadcom's licensing changes bite

Ninety percent of those considering leaving cite higher licensing costs. Fifty-four percent are unhappy with the end of support for perpetual licenses.

But most aren't actually leaving

Despite clear dissatisfaction, forty-eight percent of existing perpetual licence customers have no plans to move away from VMware Cloud Foundation.

Migration barriers are real

Three in five businesses are considering multi-hypervisor strategies, but face obstacles: operational complexity at forty percent, managing multiple vendors at thirty-eight percent, and security concerns at thirty-seven percent.

Reducing single-vendor dependency

Unisphere lead analyst Joe McKendrick said the shift reflects enterprises trying to reduce dependency on a single provider, not simply replacing one vendor with another.

“The shift for current VMware users is not simply about replacing one vendor with another.”

Third-party support gains traction

One in five VMware customers are already using third-party support instead of migrating entirely. McKendrick noted this balances support for existing environments with new investments in resilience and security.