Broadcom "preventing some vendors from selling products to us," AT&T alleges.

Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Aw, a corporation upset when another corporation does the kind of shit that corporations tend to do with regular people, thanks to the years and years of corporate lobbying allowing corporations to do whatever the fuck they want.

    I almost had a tear.

    • Laurel RavenEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Not just any corporation, but one that’s done this exact kind of thing themselves

      There is no good guy here

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    my previous employer was at work scripting their own workarounds for stuff like DRS and distributed switches so they could drop down to the standard licenses.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Move to open solutions. You buy a Proxmox license and you get it all.

      If you don’t like Proxmox you could even implement something yourself as it is all open solutions. Libvirt supports live transfers with little effort.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      They have a huge amount of machines. If I am remembering correctly it was something like 8,000 physical servers with a lot more VMs.

      • tabris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        I used to work for a major telecoms compass until recently, working on their VMWare stack and to say they are a major customer of VMWare is to put it mildly. The cost for VMWare has skyrocketed after the Broadcom deal, so while the team were gearing up for the next gen system utilising more tools from the ESXi stack, now that’s entirely abandoned and instead they’re tooling up to replace it. That’s over 500,000 VMs across a dozen or so datacenters. Broadcom’s actions may make them a lot of money in the next few years as their customers are forced to pay this huge hike, but it won’t last for long.

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          Broadcom is not playing the long game. They will milk VMware and then dump it or dissolve the company.

          Funny enough Broadcom is not doing so well right now (check there stock)

          • Laurel RavenEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal

            • Possibly linuxEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              I don’t really see a problem with it. It painful short term but has the benefit of breaking up centralization and single points of failure.

              • Laurel RavenEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there

                • Possibly linuxEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Well no. VMware had a monopoly but now they have successfully pushed everyone to other software. Not everyone is using the same alternative so the market is more diverse.

  • oxomoxo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    My work has used Nutanix since 2012, which is expensive but has been super reliable and was a game changer when they came out years ago. You can load whatever hypervisor and we continued to use VMware for years because “industry standard”. Almost two years ago I realized we could save a ton of money if we just migrated to Acropolis HV, which is their in-house solution that just puts a fancy web interface over KVM. It has been super solid and works basically the same.

    Broadcom buys VMware and I end up looking like Nostradamus. It was just lucky timing.

    When we are up for renewal I am considering going a step further and moving to Proxmox on 45Drives hardware. We use them for storage and their support for open source has been amazing.