There is no technical reason for VMware users to adopt a rival hypervisor, and that no vendor offers a one-for-one replacement for the virtualization pioneer's flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) suite.
Western Union is six months into a migration of 900 to 1,200 applications that run across a 3,900-core server fleet. The decision to move came during a period of re-invention at Western Union, a 175-year-old company that is currently working to become more customer-focused and therefore is open to new suppliers to help reach that goal.
The document notes that as of 2024 VMware dominated the server virtualization market with over 96 percent of revenue share, and that none of its rivals can completely match the capabilities of Virtzilla's stack. But Gartner feels "many" of its clients are sufficiently upset by Broadcom's actions, which have usually seen VMware customers' software costs rise 300 to 400 percent, that they have lost trust in the virtualization pioneer and are ready to "explore alternatives for current and/or future infrastructure requirements."
The threat actor leveraged combinations of sophisticated and stealthy techniques creating multilayered attack kill chains to facilitate access to restricted and segmented network assets within presumed to be isolated environments.
Over the past few weeks, VMware customers holding onto their perpetual licenses, which are often unsupported and in limbo, have reportedly begun receiving formal cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom.
"This is the first time VMware ESXi was exploited in the Pwn2Own hacking event," Praveen Singh and Monty Ijzerman, from the product security and incident response team in the VMware Cloud Foundation division of Broadcom, wrote on the company's website.
