VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer “more training at a fraction of the cost they used to pay.” The Register learned of the new offering after asking Broadcom to verify information presented at a recent VMware User Group Town Hall event at which attendees were told the virtualization …

[An_Old_Dog]

Don't Get Too Comfy

Companies who currently are "VMware Cloud Foundation customers", "strategic customer segment customers", and "Broadcom Advantage program partners” might take this as a kindly pat-on-the-back by Broadcom, but also may find to their dismay that their exalted status may be revoked with the stroke of a pen ("Customer-category re-org!").

Cheap training won't help them then.

[yetanotheraoc]

It's not only Broadcom shareholders who care deeply about the next quarter

"his strategy is succeeding and will be reflected in revenue growing by double-digit percentage sequentially, quarter over quarter, through the rest of the fiscal year"

Such growth (sic) only from the _existing_ customer base? 2025 will be dire, then.

Enterprise C-level: What did we get for our 50% increase in virtualization cost?

Enterprise virt manager: They didn't take away our free training.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: It's not only Broadcom shareholders who care deeply about the next quarter

It's almost as if they don't realise all their training [is|could be] available, gratis from torrenting CBT nuggets...

[Anonymous Coward]

Too Little, Too Late

We're already looking for alternatives to VMWare. The writing is on the wall.

[TheWeetabix]

Re: Too Little, Too Late

I heartily recommend Proxmox. Any time I find a bit of a rough edge, i go “thank Murphy its not vmware” and count my blessings.

[Piro]

Re: Too Little, Too Late

Yeah, Broadcom is accelerating the development of alternatives. Great business model!

[Spazturtle]

Re: Too Little, Too Late

I tried both Proxmox and XCP-ng and preferred XCP-ng, especially the current beta which has a lot of improvements. XCP-ng also has much better support for clustering.

[mevets]

Remember the 6 million dollar man.

He was supposed to be "faster, stronger, cheaper"... oh, uh, no, not cheaper.

How has "We can offer a more abysmal service for less money" become our defining goal?