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Beyond Renew or Replatform: A Fourth Option for VMware Customers

A customer tells you they want off VMware. They have seen the headlines, looked at the latest renewal, and decided it is time to evaluate Nutanix, Proxmox, public cloud, or another virtualization platform. The opportunity appears straightforward: help them select an alternative and build the migration plan. But what if leaving VMware isn’t actually the best answer? A platform move is risky, time-consuming, and expensive.

Cloud Management Without Losing Control

Cloud adoption is no longer just a question of where workloads run. Managing a complex cloud environment without a unified view is like running a city with separate control rooms for every utility. While this is quite possible, it likely will be much slower and much harder to manage. In a similar way, the bigger challenge for IT Leaders is maintaining visibility, security, operational control, and evidence for compliance.

What Are Managed Services, and Why Can Network IT Teams Rely on Them?

That might sound like a trick question since it’s what we do as a managed infrastructure services provider. But it really isn’t. Here is the quick answer: Managed services let organizations outsource day-to-day IT operations, including networks, security, connectivity, and policy management, to a specialized provider.
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One View, More Control: The Strategic Value of an Integrated IT Operating Model

Businesses are managing increasingly complex technology environments. Infrastructure, cloud, data protection, cybersecurity and continuity services all play a critical role in keeping organisations productive, resilient and ready to grow. At the same time, technology leaders are under pressure to improve efficiency, control costs and demonstrate clear value from every investment. In this environment, the challenge is not just choosing the right technology, but creating an operating model that gives the business control without adding unnecessary complexity.
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Cyber Risk and Incident Response: A Growing Priority Across Industries

Cyber risk has become a dominant priority for organisations across nearly every sector. As the severity and velocity of the threat landscape and technological change continue to accelerate, organisations are under increasing pressure to ensure they can keep pace and recover quickly in the aftermath of a cyber event. A core focus for many organisations is strengthening their incident response capability: how effectively the business can react and recover when an attack occurs.

Looking Ahead from VMware Explore

Our time at VMware Explore reinforced what we believe and continue to see across the industry: VMware remains the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) continues to push the envelope with a powerful set of built-in capabilities that help organizations build, operate, and secure modern environments. Time and again, we saw how these capabilities are enabling businesses to simplify complexity and operate with greater confidence.

Hypervisor Migration Risks: What to Know Before Planning a Move

Broadcom’s acquisition has every IT leader re-examining their virtualization stack. Per CloudBolt’s February 2026 survey of 302 IT decisionmakers, 86% are actively reducing their VMware footprint, but only 4% have fully completed the move, and over 50% have changed strategy twice or more since the acquisition. That gap between intent and actualization tells a very specific story. Migrating away from VMware isn’t easy and may not lead to the outcomes those leaders were expecting.

Ask Why Before You Walk Away from a VMware Deal

Here is a deal that almost died for the wrong reason. The customer said, “We need Hyper-V.” The partner logged it as a technical requirement, qualified the opportunity out of any VMware conversation, and moved on. Reasonable enough. That is what a stated requirement is supposed to mean. Except it was not technical. When someone finally asked why Hyper-V, the answer had nothing to do with the hypervisor.

The Hidden Costs of On-Prem Infrastructure

One of the more underreported consequences of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has been its impact on conventional enterprise infrastructure. For years, IT executives could rely on a relatively predictable rhythm of hardware purchases, refresh cycles, and procurement lead times. On-premises infrastructure was never effortless to manage, but its patterns were, at the very least, well-established.