HPE offers free VM Essentials and discounted Zerto to lure VMware customers amid licensing backlash
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Dan Robinson
Summary
HPE is capitalizing on VMware's controversial licensing changes by offering customers a free one-year license for its VM Essentials product and a $1 license for its Zerto data protection tool. Announced at HPE Discover in Las Vegas, the program is framed as a migration assistance initiative aimed at channel partners helping customers reduce financial risk when switching virtualization platforms. The offer targets VMware customers looking to escape expensive licensing changes.
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HPE is taking advantage of VMware's expensive licensing changes by offering customers free use of its own VM Essentials product for a year
plus a $1 license for its Zerto data protection product to help ease migrations
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