Adapting to VMware licensing changes [Video]

The cloud and enterprise software landscape is undergoing significant shifts, driven by rapid changes in VMware licensing changes and service delivery.

Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of VMware was anticipated, but the company still had to adapt to the changes that came with the $63 billion deal. Expedient had to rearchitect between March and September 2024 after learning of changes in January, requiring an all-hands-on-deck pivot, according to Bryan Smith (pictured), chief executive officer of Expedient.

“We knew it was switching to cores from the consumption of [random access memory] for a service provider,” Smith said. “We could start doing the math of what that required, and we’re a little bit different than some of our peer companies, where 80% of our platform is actually multi-tenant, 20% private. The biggest thing we did was … separate the disaster recovery clients from production so that we’re not consuming the licenses as a service provider until they actually fail over and start using it.”

Smith …