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VMware Defections Continue: Nutanix Welcomes Evalueserve

• By David Ramel
• 01/16/2025

Ever since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware a couple years ago, reports have cited enterprise defections from the virtualization tech due to problematic new licensing details and other issues.

Those defections have been trumpeted by benefactors, with the latest being Nutanix announcing that Evalueserve, a global research and analytics firm, has chosen Nutanix to replace its VMware-based virtualization infrastructure.

A Nutanix news release titled "Evalueserve Moves to Nutanix from Complex IT Environment That Included VMware by Broadcom" said Evalueserve simplified its IT by moving critical applications from a multivendor IT environment that included VMware by Broadcom on to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution.

"The applications running on Nutanix solutions enable Evalueserve's employees to collaborate as they work, develop applications, monitor IT, operate Evalueserve's network, and secure Evalueserve's IT," the release said said. "The applications on NCP also enable Evalueserve to provide its customers with access to a learning portal and knowledge management solution, and to a Microsoft-based enterprise resource planning tool."

As noted, this trend of VMware defections has been continuing for years (see "Another Firm Woos Disgruntled VMware Customers to Migrate to Cloud"). In fact, it has been documented (see "Research Cites Nutanix in Market Shift Away from VMware").

Nutanix has been particularly active in wooing disgruntled VMware users (see "Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Offering on AWS Targets VMware Users"), even presenting a webcast on the trend (see "Moving to Nutanix from VMware for a Simpler, More Efficient Future"). The company as also published a "Streamline VMware-to-Nutanix Migrations" whitepaper and the "VMware to Nutanix Migration Promotion" along with "Leave Legacy Behind: Transition from VMware to Nutanix" guidance.

The company Veeam has also gotten in on the act, publishing "Research Report: VMware Customers Weigh Alternatives."

Another company, CloudBolt, also examined the issue (see "CloudBolt Paper Examines 'VMware Acquisition Aftermath'").

Research firm Forrester, meanwhile, published "Navigating The Disruption Of Broadcom's Acquisition Of VMware," which discusses the challenges and opportunities for VMware in the evolving cloud landscape, along with "Map Out Your VMware Options, Post-Broadcom."

Gartner has also addressed the issue with "Broadcom (VMware) vs Nutanix."

Along with moving applications on to Nutanix, Evalueserve runs the Nutanix AHV hypervisors across all of its datacenters worldwide, which further enables them to simplify the management of workloads for customers and employees, the company said.

Getting back to this week's news, Nutanix exec Faiz Shakir weighed in: "Nutanix has been helping customers explore alternatives and migrate to our platform since Nutanix was founded. In this example, we helped Evalueserve improve application performance, and strengthen its security and governance controls. The migration from its multivendor environment was also done without disruption to Evalueserve's operations, and it simplified the management of its IT."

But Broadcom hasn't been reticent in addressing these developments, (see "As VMware Competitors Circle, Broadcom Makes New Partners" and "After AWS Licensing Tiff, Broadcom Strengthens VMware/Azure Cloud Ties.") It also has responded on many other fronts.

And all the defections don't seem to have affected Broadcom's bottom line much, as the company just last month reported strong financial results, with one of those being revenue of $14,054 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024, up 51 percent from the prior year period.