Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge
Advertises for someone to ‘own cost-effective alternative virtualisation platform’
Tesco, the UK retail giant, is planning to replace its current virtualization platform, VMware, with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge. The company has posted a job ad for a Head of Software Engineering: Edge Platform role, which includes leading the migration from VMware to Proxmox and building a robust Edge Management Platform.
Proxmox, an open-source virtualization platform offered by an Austrian company, is gaining attention as a VMware alternative for edge and hyperconverged scenarios. The move comes after Tesco sued VMware over a contract dispute. Despite a potential 175% price increase and VMware's claim that it no longer makes the software Tesco wants to upgrade to, the matter remains before the courts.
Tesco operates over 5,000 stores worldwide and is reportedly considering Microsoft's Hyper-V for its core workloads. Analysts see the move as a way to modernize Tesco's edge virtualisation estate and reduce dependence on VMware.
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