Broadcom cut a top VMware partner that it had pointed customers toward a year earlier.
- Insight Enterprises, an $8.2 billion provider, can no longer resell VMware licenses or VCF Entitlement Services in North America.
- It keeps delivering already booked VMware work through October 31.
- Broadcom sent customers to Insight during its September 2025 reseller cull, and named it a partner of the year twice since.
- Broadcom now lists 38 Pinnacle consulting partners in the United States, down from a VMware partner base of roughly 30,000.
- Partners suspect the cut followed Insight selling competing products into the VMware base. Broadcom has not confirmed a reason.
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