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Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure — mass exodus continues due to Broadcom's aggressive subscription model

Latest from Tom's Hardware ·Bruno Ferreira·3 months ago
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(Image credit: Getty Images) Ever since buying out VMware in 2023, Broadcom has raised prices for existing customers. Although the play did result in massively increased revenue for VMware, it also triggered a slow but steady exodus away from the platform, as enterprises everywhere balk at the price tags and/or sue Broadcom. UK supermarket chain Tesco is the latest entity to up and replace VMWare across its fleet of 40,000 servers, a move it expects to complete in 2027, Ars Technica reports. This marks the largest publicly known migration off the platform in recent years, and arrives against the backdrop of the $134-million (£100m) lawsuit that Tesco filed last year against Broadcom. In the filing, Tesco claims that Broadcom committed a breach of contract by not honoring the perpetual licenses it bought in 2021, and that Broadcom's actions are at odds with multiple competition laws. Tesco also named VMware itself and Computacenter, the reseller, in the suit.…

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