“VMware has well-engineered solutions but they are also the most expensive, and price is more of an issue ... “VMware will argue it can get more VMs per host to get the costs down, for example ...

Click image for full-sized view. Microsoft executives made their comments during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Los Angeles. Several of those executives ...

Consumption-based pricing ... VMware heard howls of protest from customers when it debuted vRAM, which pegs costs to the amount of memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the host.

In response to customer feedback and amidst mounting scrutiny from the industry and now regulators, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has announced a significant backpedal on the company’s pricing model.