Cloud Service Provider

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What changed

body: | Since Broadcom's acquisition, service providers have to attach to a CSP in the Pinnacle or Premier tier if their core count is below 3500. For many Swiss providers that is not a choice but a condition of carrying on. - heading:

Why us specifically

body: | Because we do not host anything ourselves. We are a partner rather than a competitor, and in this business that is not a throwaway line: licensing your platform through someone who serves the same customers gives away more than an order quantity. As a CSP in the Premier tier we supply white-label licensing for your hosting platform, along with help integrating the VCF technologies. We implement VCF ourselves and can help with Tanzu, NSX, vSAN and the operations tooling, so the stack you bought actually gets used. - heading:

Working out your core count

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What changed

Why us specifically

Working out your core count

What changed

Why us specifically

Working out your core count

What changed

Why us specifically

Working out your core count

What changed

Why us specifically

Working out your core count

Cloud Service Provider

What changed

Why us specifically

Working out your core count

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