Sheetz, a US convenience store chain, is moving its 838 locations off VMware.
Sheetz has used VMware virtualization across two Dell R440/R450-series servers at each of its locations since 2019. Now it’s migrating 12 to 14 virtual machines (VMs) in each of its stores from VMware vSphere to StorMagic’s SvHCI, “with an additional two VMs to be replaced over the coming months to transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11,” Scott Robertson, infrastructure team manager at Sheetz, told Ars Technica via email. Ultimately, Sheetz will move about 11,000 VMs from Broadcom's virtualization platform. Sheetz is still running the original Dell server hardware.
So far, Sheetz has finished migrating more than 600 stores, averaging 200 per month, according to a company announcement today. Sheetz should be finished with the migration in four months, the announcement said.
Allstate Insurance Company has accused Broadcom of haphazardly issuing audits against it because the insurance firm decided not to renew its contracts with VMware and CA Technologies.
The allegations were made in relation to a lawsuit that VMware filed against Allstate in December 2025, according to The Register. In the complaint, Broadcom alleges that Allstate failed to comply with license audits, which Broadcom claims its contract with Allstate requires.
In a June 12 filing, Allstate suggested that Broadcom issued the audits in response to Allstate deciding to end business with its companies. Allstate's statement reads:
Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products.
Bill Colleran, a veteran technology executive who previously led Impinj and sold Innovent Systems to Broadcom, has joined Seattle-based AI coding startup Adronite as CEO.
Edward Rothschild, who co-founded Adronite in 2023 and served as its first CEO, is transitioning to chief technology officer, where he’ll continue leading the company’s product development, including its Adronite Context Engine and Codistry AI code generation tool, according to a news release.
The 15-person company raised a $5 million Series A led by Gatemore Capital Management earlier this year. The platform supports cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployments, targeting midmarket companies and regulated industries.
Colleran has more than 35 years of experience in semiconductor and enterprise technology. He grew Impinj into a market leader in RFID technology, raising more than $100 million in equity financing. He left the company in 2014 and was succeeded by co-founder Chris Diorio.
He was also CEO of Innovent Systems, which developed the world’s first CMOS Bluetooth chip and was acquired by Broadcom for approximately $500 million.
More recently he founded lidar company Lumotive and led Seattle SaaS startup AnswerDash. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
“Throughout my career, I’ve seen technology industries transformed when complexity becomes manageable,” Colleran said in a statement. “Software development now faces a similar challenge. AI can generate code at an incredible pace, but understanding complex software systems remains difficult for both developers and AI.”
Adronite’s platform aims to help developers and AI agents understand entire codebases rather than working file by file — a challenge especially acute for midmarket companies managing legacy systems without the tooling available to large enterprises.
The company says its approach can cut token consumption by up to 40%, a claim that could resonate as engineering teams grapple with rising AI costs.
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T-Mobile is asking a New York court to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to continue supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
In its complaint, T-Mobile said it has tens of thousands of virtual machines using VMware software across approximately 303,140 CPU cores. It also said that it was migrating off VMware but noted the time-consuming and technical challenges involved in migrating over 1,000 applications.
It filed its lawsuit, which was first reported by The Register today, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in August 2025 (PDF).
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