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> Many mid-market and regional operators

These aren't Broadcom's ICPs.

> Nutanix

Good for Nutanix. Market segmentation exists for a reason.

The article is also written by Steve McDowell, who's analyst firm (NAND Research) is sponsored by Nutanix [0][1]

Welcome to Enterprise Sales.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93FbVZGDXoY

[1] - https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/technology/hype...

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The article mentions several VMware alternatives:

  - RedHat OpenShift (k8s)
  - Scale Computing HC3
  - Wind River Cloud 
  - public cloud providers

Any other alternatives?

Proxmox leaps to mind. HyperV, XCP-ng, raw KVM..

Xen is still around, including an open-source version. It's not as visible as it used to be but works e.g. XenServer (https://www.xenserver.com/editions). I'd look at this over VMWare anyday.

When I was looking at solutions, most of what I found seemed to indicate Xen is waning in popularity. I considered XCP-ng but since KVM seems to be more preferred now, I ended up going with Proxmox for a few small work (3-5 hosts) and home (1 and 3 host) systems. It’s actually been rock-solid, basically had zero problems with it.

> rock-solid

Perl FTW, https://github.com/proxmox/pve-common

If you're looking at small self hosting then Proxmox.

That’s where my IT department said they’re headed the other day.

in no particular order:

- HPE morpheus VM Essential

- Apache Cloudstack

- Platform9

...

Really feels like Openstack could use a fresh coat of paint and someone to create a nice opinionated distribution of it and challenge some of these f500 customer vmware accounts. It's very powerful, but is as user-hostile as I have personally experienced. Maybe this already exists though with Cloudstack?

Proxmox is an amazing alternative

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