Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of virtualization pioneer VMware in late 2023 brought about significant price increases and a shift towards subscription-based licensing. The company aims to establish VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the foundation for enterprise workloads gravitating towards private cloud environments. VMware is continuously expanding its Kubernetes features and contributing to the open source community to simplify cloud infrastructures and support advanced workloads.
System shift: Broadcom steers enterprise workloads into private, VCF-based clouds. Kubernetes tooling gets centralized. Community controllers make room for integrated alternatives like Avi.
