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  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    542 months ago

    Open Nebula is apparently their new platform of choice,

    Never heard of it.

    • Troy
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      422 months ago

      https://opennebula.io/

      Their website speaks corporatese. Not immediately clear what their business model is.

      • Fubarberry
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        572 months ago

        One of my biggest pet peeves with corporate websites. It’s like they’re afraid that clearly stating what they do will prevent them from growing and doing other things as well. So instead they refuse to say anything coherent.

        • @[email protected]
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          232 months ago

          I think marketing graduates don’t actually research their products anymore. It’s mostly irrelevant.

          If they did having something like a “product Spotlight” that rotates through some modules on their main product would solve this problem.

  • @affiliate
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    462 months ago

    it feels like monopolies have become so common and widespread that companies are starting to forget that sometimes you can lose customers after raising prices.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 months ago

      Broadcom doesn’t care. They exploit the lag time for very large companies to switch. In that time, they can set prices as high as they want, because the company won’t go without licenses or support.

    • @Anticorp
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      92 months ago

      What do they care? They can lose 1000 customers with this change before it affects them, and if they lose 1999 customers then they’re still ahead.

  • Orbituary
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    392 months ago

    I can’t tell if this is a paid-for article by OpenNebula or what. It reads that way.

  • m-p{3}
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    2 months ago

    We were a medium-sized VMware client, roughly 4000 VMs. We’re almost done migrating to Nutanix.

    Sadly not open source, but less money towards Broadcom is a good thing overall.

      • circuscritic
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        82 months ago

        I can almost assure you, it was not considered.

        Nutanix is a mature platform, but more importantly, they’re a mature vendor, which means support contracts with SLAs.

      • m-p{3}
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        42 months ago

        I wasn’t involved in the tender, so I don’t know who initially applied and what were the specifics.

    • @Evotech
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      42 months ago

      Isn’t nutanix licensed the same way more or less?

  • TimeSquirrel
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    142 months ago

    According to Beeks, OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.

    Salt in the wound for VMware.