VMware Price Shock Spurs Multi‑Hypervisor Shift

A large majority of VMware customers report exploring alternatives after Broadcom‑era licensing and support changes, with surveys citing 90% exploring options and many refusing migration to VMware Cloud Foundation. Organizations say cost savings top their virtualization roadmap, but migration barriers (complexity, security, skills) mean firms prefer multi‑hypervisor and hybrid mixes rather than an immediate wholesale switch. — If widespread, vendor price‑and‑support shocks can rework enterprise cloud architectures, weakening single‑vendor lock‑ins, reshaping competition among hypervisor and cloud vendors, and affecting IT budgets and national digital resilience.