Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers

Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of VMware shelfware
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www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/broadcom_q3_2025/

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Broadcom's management trying to spin lack of implementations as an opportunity when really it be more like:

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Probably more Hyper-V if we are being honest

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Really wish we would have gone hyper v instead of Stack HCI

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It’s going to be Nutanix.

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If it didn't suck much I'd probably like it

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Promoc and Harvester HCI taking over the space would be a dream come true for me

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Shelfware meaning something bought but never used, apparently.

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Oh, like much of my gaming library

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"Private on-prem cloud"... Are we circling back?

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oh we are so back!

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The abstraction of the compute, storage, and networking that cloud providers is really useful for devs. Using that only to rent hardware is extremely cost prohibitive for some, not to mention the risk of renting stuff for critical workloads.

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Here comes the other part of our work, which is to take these 10,000 customers or a big chunk of them who have bought the vision of a private cloud on-prem and working with them to enable them to deploy it and operate it successfully on their infrastructure and on-prem,”

What kind of fever-dream is this?

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