Nutanix is telling anyone who will listen that Broadcom’s shake-up has pushed tens of thousands towards its rival platform.
Speaking to the gathered throngs at the outfit’s.NEXT conference in Chicago this week, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said that “about 30,000 customers” have migrated from VMware to Nutanix
Ramaswami added: “I think there’s no doubt that the customer sentiment continues to be negative about Broadcom.”
Nutanix has not said how many of those switchers are small businesses or big enterprises, but it is leaning hard into the mid-market while trying to charm larger outfits. Nutanix tends to start with partial deployments, then works its way deeper once it has its hooks in.
Ramaswami reportedly said some recent movers helped deliver Nutanix’s “strongest quarterly new logo additions in eight years. Most of the logos came from our typical VMware migrations onto the [hyperconverged infrastructure] platform.”
Nutanix VP and head of technology services Brandon Shaw said Western Union is shifting 900 to 1,200 applications across 3,900 cores.
Shaw said Western Union has been looking at fresh IT suppliers to get more customer-focused. Despite Broadcom’s history of “decent lines of communication” with Western Union, Shaw said Western Union had “challenges partnering with them.”
Shaw had a pop at Broadcom’s push to steer customers into VMware Cloud Foundation; even when it is stuffed with features they do not need, it is priced at levels that make finance teams wince. Western Union likes the extra flexibility on workload locations, handy when you operate in more than 200 countries and do not fancy being boxed into someone else’s roadmap.
