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Crossroads moment: How should IT leaders respond to VMware’s big changes?

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The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom and subsequent licensing changes have forced many businesses to pay two to three times more for virtualisation, according to Gartner – prompting many IT leaders to rethink. The cost implications of VMware licensing changes have left many organisations in “a very painful place,” says Rhys Powell, senior black belt, Managed Cloud Services at Red Hat, who was speaking as part of a CIO webcast series. Organisati…
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The license and price changes at VMware after the Broadcom takeover as well as criticism from the industry about the EU release of the deal have stirred up many companies. IT managers are currently rethinking their infrastructure strategies, reviewing product packages and licensing models and are fundamentally concerned with dependencies of central platform providers. Because when a core building block of IT like VMware suddenly becomes more exp…

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CIO broke the news in on Thursday, January 15, 2026.
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