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The VMware Double Tax: Why So Many Enterprises Stay Longer Than They Want

I recently had a conversation with a CTO at a large enterprise that perfectly captured the funding reality behind a lot of VMware…

 
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Blogs
What Kubernetes Reveals About the Next Phase of Cloud Cost Management

Cloud cost management is maturing.  For years, cloud cost management focused on visibility: getting bills under control, understanding which services drove…

 
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Blogs
Build Optionality: The Capabilities That Keep VMware From Dictating Your Roadmap 

Most VMware transition plans still start with the same question: where are we moving?  It’s a reasonable place to start, but…

 
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Videos, demos, webinars
Kubernetes Resource Optimization with Humans in the Loop, with Ray Chen | KubeFM

Watch this Kube FM interview of Ray Chen, Head of SRE at Trumid, as he demonstrates how StormForge helps platform…

 
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Blogs
Broadcom Just Posted Record Earnings. Here’s What They’re Not Telling You.

Broadcom reported earnings this week. Record revenue. $19.3 billion in Q1. VMware bookings exceeding $9.2 billion in total contract value.…

 
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Blogs
Field Notes From Enterprise VMware Teams After Broadcom 

Two years after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, the conventional wisdom around what’s happening feels rather binary: companies are either leaving wholesale or not making a change…

 
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Blogs
VMwhere? How Enterprises Decide What Moves Off VMware and Where It Goes Next 

Two years into VMware’s Broadcom era, most enterprises aren’t asking whether they are leaving. They’re trying to answer a more operational question. What can move safely this year, what has to wait,…

 
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Customer stories
Lobster Data customer story

When Lobster, Germany’s leading data integration and automation company serving 2,000+ customers worldwide, outgrew manual, fragmented infrastructure operations, they turned…

 
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Blogs
The VMware Decision Window: Waiting Is Getting More Expensive 

Most enterprises did not respond to the Broadcom acquisition with a clean exit. In fact, they’re still working through their response, most often through phased…

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Nov 3, 2025
How Lobster Cut Manual Work by 90% and Scaled 5x with CloudBolt

Lobster, Germany’s pioneering data integration software company, is known for its motto “connecting people and data for a better future.” Its data platform connects systems…

 
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Jan 23, 2026
How Acquia cut web node infrastructure by 65% with continuous Kubernetes rightsizing

Acquia modernized a platform that previously ran on roughly 26,000 EC2 nodes by moving to Kubernetes. The goal wasn’t just…

 
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Jan 26, 2026
The 10 traps waiting for you in your VMware exit strategy

Let me guess: getting off Broadcom was on your list last year. Maybe the year before. How’s that going? If…

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