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Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey

Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.

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Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
Source: Ars Technica

VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware.

Today, Rimini Street published its “2026 IT Virtualization Survey – What’s Next for VMware Users.” The survey examined 300 organizations worldwide that use VMware.

Notably, Rimini sells third-party support for VMware and other software, including Oracle and SAP. That means there’s an incentive for Rimini to portray VMware users as experiencing obstacles. However, the survey was also conducted by a third-party research company, Unisphere Research, and the results align with other recent reports about VMware customers.

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