DartIQ: Making the “Broadcom Exit” Practical for VMware Customers, Podcast

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“The Broadcom acquisition changed VMware’s business strategy—and prices—overnight. Our job is to make the exit as simple as possible,” says Peri Uday Bhaskar, of DartIQ. In this Technology Reseller News podcast recorded at MSP Summit, Publisher Doug Green speaks with Bhaskar about DartIQ’s focus: accelerating and de-risking VMware workload migrations to customers’ preferred destinations—public cloud, private cloud, or on-prem. Bhaskar notes that VMware’s long-time stability masked how dependent many organizations became on its licensing model and partner ecosystem. After Broadcom’s acquisition, customers reported steep subscription price increases and a shift to bundled SKUs—from roughly 8,000 products to just a handful of bundles—forcing buyers to pay for features they don’t need. He adds that discounts frequently require 3–5-year commitments, and many smaller customers are now confronting a minimum 72-core buy that doesn’t fit their footprint. The result: VMware line items that jump 4x to 10x and a rush to evaluate alternatives. DartIQ’s answer is vMigrate, a hyper-automated platform that consolidates the multi-step migration toolchain—discovery, assessment, planning, landing-zone build-out, and cutover—into a single workflow, which Bhaskar says can deliver up to 60% time savings compared with traditional approaches. Key capabilities include: Workload analysis & customized cloud planning: Breaks VMware estates into workload packages, validates readiness, and models target-cloud cost, architecture, and trade-offs before a move. Automated landing-zone assignments: Translates on-prem VMware constructs into the correct public/private cloud equivalents and builds the plumbing (networking, policies, placements) to ensure workloads run on day one. Destination flexibility: Supports migrations to public cloud, private cloud, or back to modernized on-prem—wherever the business case lands. “VMware is a feature-rich, solid platform,” Bhaskar says. “But when costs spike tenfold, customers—especially small and midsized organizations working through MSPs—need a clear, automated path to right-sized alternatives.” This DartIQ offering is purpose-built for MSPs: the company engages through the partner channel and provides assessments, planning, and migration execution with the goal of reducing both project complexity and services spend for end customers. Learn more: Visit DartIQ’s website and the team’s blog (referenced as datakey.ai in the conversation) for migration primers, cost-modeling insights, and MSP scheduling via Calendly.