Topgolf has moved 12,000 virtual machines from VMware to VergeIO's VergeOS platform after Broadcom's pricing changes threatened to quadruple its VMware costs. The sports entertainment company's global infrastructure manager Scott Forehand says the migration has already eliminated over $11.3 million in combined infrastructure costs, with the full transition off VMware expected by mid-December. Twenty Topgolf venues still run VxRail with VMware Cloud Foundation during the ongoing switchover.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-13
A Rimini Street survey of 300 VMware-using organizations found 60% are considering a multi-hypervisor approach, while 47% favor combining hypervisors and containers to choose where workloads run. Respondents cited operational complexity (40%), multi-vendor management (38%), expanded attack surface and staff skills gaps (each 37%) as the main barriers to making such changes.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-07
Rimini Street's '2026 IT Virtualization Survey,' conducted with Unisphere Research across 300 organizations, found that 90% of VMware users are looking at alternative virtualization options because of rising licensing costs, and 54% cited Broadcom's decision to end support for perpetual license holders. The survey also found 73% of respondents rank cost savings as a top priority, while many cite operational complexity, multi-vendor management, security exposure, and skills gaps as barriers to switching.
slashdot.org
· 2026-10-06
A recent survey of 300 global organizations reveals that nearly half of VMware users face operational challenges when considering migration to alternative virtualization platforms. The study highlights issues such as managing multiple vendors, security concerns, and skill gaps as key barriers. Cost increases following Broadcom's acquisition of VMware also influence organizations' virtualization strategies.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-06
CISA has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog to flag ransomware gangs actively exploiting a critical VMware vCenter directory traversal flaw, CVE-2026-59310, patched by Broadcom in July. The bug had already been abused by a suspected APT group to compromise over 361 IP addresses across 47 countries, and Shadowserver now tracks more than 450 exposed vCenter servers online.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-15
Broadcom has removed public access to VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), a library relied on by major migration tools including Microsoft Azure Migrate, Red Hat's Migration Toolkit, Nutanix Move, and various VMware-to-KVM utilities. Customers report that Broadcom support confirmed the kit is no longer available for general download, though no official announcement or explanation has been issued.
virtualizationhowto.com
· 2026-09-07
A technical write-up explains how libzmq now supports AF_VSOCK, the Linux socket address family used for VM-to-hypervisor communication, originally developed by VMware as VMCI. The piece notes that while several languages already offer low-level AF_VSOCK bindings, no higher-level abstraction existed until this libzmq integration, which lets developers use familiar ZeroMQ patterns instead of manually handling raw socket calls.
blog.remijouan.net
· 2026-09-07
VMware's parent Broadcom acknowledged that its sales team overemphasized VCF, its costly private cloud bundle, even when smaller customers wanted the cheaper vSphere Standard product. VCF chief product officer Paul Turner admitted the company has corrected this practice, and executives say an updated vSphere Standard release is coming soon, likely detailed at VMware Explore in Frankfurt in October.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-04
Empirik, incubated inside Sequoia Capital since 2023 by former infrastructure executives Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, is now launching as an independent company with $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. The startup, now led by CEO Kartik Chandrayana, builds software that monitors infrastructure changes and predicts how they might cascade into failures before they happen. It already counts startups and Fortune 500 firms like S&P Global among its customers.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-01
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