It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
www.theregister.com
Computershare CTO says he got a bill 15 times his previous quote
  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    “We want to focus on keeping our large customers”

    Loses large customers

    Surprised pikachu face

  • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This may be a silly question, but what are VMs generally used for in a corporate setting? Is it the same use case as docker?

    • Anubis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      In large scale computing, a server will have VERY powerful hardware. You can run multiple VMs on that one machine, giving a slice of that power to each VM so that it basically ends up with multiple individual computers running on one very powerful set of hardware instead of building a ton of individual.

      • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        The other key feature being cost. A VDI terminal is much cheaper than actual PCs for employees. When I was working IT for a large company, we were able to get them in bulk for about $100 each. A PC cost us at least $800.