Amidst consumer discontentment around Broadcom’s VMware takeover, competitors have actually been attempting to draw consumers from the leading virtualization company. Among VMware’s most significant rivals, Nutanix, declares to have actually swiped 10s of countless VMware consumers.

Speaking at a press rundown at Nutanix’s. NEXT conference in Chicago today, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami stated that “about 30,000 consumers” have actually moved from VMware to the competing platform, indicating consumer displeasure over Broadcom’s VMware method, SDxCentral, a London-based IT publication, reported today.

“I believe there’s no doubt that the consumer belief continues to be unfavorable about Broadcom,” Ramaswami stated, per SDxCentral.

Considering that Broadcom got VMware in November 2023, various VMware users have actually looked for to decrease or end their dependence on VMware innovations. The most typical chauffeurs for migrations are that VMware is getting too pricey; users are being required to bundle items; the business ended continuous licenses; and VMware has actually ended up being harder to deal with after Broadcom chose channel partners.

Broadcom’s method has actually made VMware unaffordable or not practical for a lot of little- to medium-size services (SMBs) and narrowed VMware’s focus to enterprise-size clients.

Nutanix hasn’t defined the number of the consumers that it received from VMware are SMBs or enterprise-sized; although, adoption is stated to be greatest amongst mid-market consumers as Nutanix likewise attempts charming bigger consumers, frequently by beginning with partial implementations.

Throughout today’s press rundown, Ramaswami supposedly stated that a few of the clients that moved from VMware to Nutanix throughout the latter’s newest financial quarter represented Nutanix’s “greatest quarterly brand-new logo design additions in 8 years.”

“Most of the logo designs originated from our common VMware migrations on to the [hyperconverged infrastructure] platform,” he stated.

Throughout the Nutanix conference, Brandon Shaw, Nutanix VP and head of innovation services, stated that Western Union has actually been moving from VMware to Nutanix for 6 months, The Register reported. The monetary services business is moving 900 to 1,200 applications throughout 3,900 cores.

Shaw stated that Western Union has actually been checking out brand-new IT providers to assist it end up being more customer-focused. In spite of Broadcom’s history of “good lines of interaction” with Western Union, Shaw stated that Western Union had “difficulties partnering with them.”