Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills
theregister.co.ukExclusive Rackspace is moving some of its back-office workloads off VMware and onto a platform called Private Cloud Director offered by cloud infrastructure outfit Platform9.
The Register understands that Rackspace considered testing migration from VMware after its software bills rose under Broadcom's licensing changes and it felt a need to consider less costly alternatives.
“We are cognizant of changes in licensing and what that means for us,” said Justin Kuss, Rackspace’s VP, Product and Architect for Application and Platform Modernization. “What we are looking at is to run our infrastructure as efficiently as possible.”
That desire has seen Rackspace move around 50 VMs running databases, application servers and third party software systems, to Platform9’s Private Cloud Director (PCD).
PCD launched in in 2024 and which aims to replicate most of the functions found in VMware’s stack. Platform9 has also created a tool called vJailbreak that migrates ...
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