{"id":74978,"date":"2024-12-02T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:58:31","slug":"company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom\u2019s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/06\/price-hikes-of-over-2x-widely-expected-under-broadcoms-vmware-survey-finds\/\">controversial changes<\/a>. Now we have an inside look at one of the larger customers that recently made the move.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/12\/02\/beeks_group_vmware_opennebula_migration\/\">The Register<\/a> today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing platform. Beeks Group sells virtual private servers and bare metal servers to financial service providers. It still has some VMware VMs, but \u201cthe majority\u201d of its machines are currently on OpenNebula, The Register reported.<\/p>\n<p>Beeks\u2019 head of production management, Matthew Cretney, said that one of the reasons for Beeks&#8217; migration was a VMware bill for \u201c10 times the sum it previously paid for software licenses,\u201d per The Register.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/12\/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/12\/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom\u2019s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other controversial changes. 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According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom\u2019s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other controversial changes. 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