De-risking the VMware Dilemma. Don’t let Software Paralysis Stop your Security!

Broadcom’s recent acquisition of VMware has been a significant step in their plan to build a multimillion-pound, multi-cloud strategy. But this acquisition has left many businesses across the globe feeling rushed to decide their future cyber security strategies, unsure on where they stand with regards to compliance and security practices, and without direction to maintain the smooth running of their operational systems.

Hock Tan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcom released a blog highlighting that:

‘VMware Cloud on AWS is no longer directly sold by AWS or its channel partners. […] Customers who have active one or three-year subscriptions with monthly payments that were purchased from AWS will continue to be invoiced by AWS until the end of their term.’ – Hock Tan, CEO, Broadcom

This change has caused significant trust issues for companies who put their faith in this service. In addition to elements like higher prices, as well as less flexibility, SecurityHQ have noted the global impact.

‘What we are seeing with customers, and in business in the market across the globe, is that everybody is struggling with the same issue. Companies are feeling powerless and concerned with significantly increasing renewal prices. The market has seen this transition before with Broadcom’s acquisitions, and the way they integrate those acquisitions into their business model. We want to let VMware customers know that they have other options by working with SecurityHQ.’ – Shane Eliason, Cloud Sales Lead, SecurityHQ

SecurityHQ have seen cases where VMware prices have risen significantly. And companies are struggling to figure out how to de-risk their current VMware situation.  They currently have three options:

1. Accept price increases and new subscription model at renewal
2. Move to competing hypervisor (Nutanix, Hyper-V for instance)
3. Migrate to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

To add more pressure, CISOs have a limited time to decide on the correct course for their organisation, as this was not a planned event.

• First, companies need to determine if these options are as mature as VMware.
• Second, companies in specific industries, such as manufacturing, have unique requirements where the Cloud might not work for them.
• Third, business in specific industries, such as Life Sciences, must ensure watertight compliance.

An Alternative and Cost-Effective Solution

This VMware issue will continue to be a problem for the next two years at least, depending on the renewal date, and it is impacting everyone.

–             92% of Fortune 1000 Customers run on VMware (IDC)

–             85M Virtual Machines still on-premises (VMware Explore 2022)

–             $24B Total Addressable Spend for VMware (IDC)

If this is a challenge that you and your company are trying to solve right now, SecurityHQ would love to have a call with you. We offer a powerful, attractive, and flexible financial model, that is budget friendly to budget neutral to get you migrated to AWS quickly and easily.

To know more, drop us a message, here.