From VMware to Open Source: Beeks Group’s Bold Move
Beeks Group, a UK-based cloud operator, reports that a thousand percent price increase on VMware licenses drove its migration of over 20,000 virtual machines to OpenNebula. The switch reduced management overhead and doubled efficiency by enabling more virtual machines per server.
Scharon Harding writes for Ars Technica
According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing platform. Beeks Group sells virtual private servers and bare metal servers to financial service providers. It still has some VMware VMs, but 'the majority' of its machines are currently on OpenNebula, The Register reported.
Beeks cited cost, declining VMware support, and customer perception of VMware as non-essential among reasons for the change.