Are there realistic alternatives to VMWare? - White Paper

If you are a VMware shop, and you’ve been thinking about how Broadcom’s offer to acquire VMware might affect your business, you may have been wondering whether any realistic alternatives to VMware exist in the market.

Only time will tell whether the acquisition actually happens, and what the ramifications will be if the deal goes through. Many analysts see negative implications for existing customers based on Broadcom’s history of rightsizing companies it acquires, including LSI, Brocade, CA Technologies and Symantec. With the impending Broadcom takeover, this whitepaper explores five fundamental questions that VMware shops need to ask right now.