VMware exits are turning into finance problems as often as they are infrastructure problems. After recent VMware licensing changes, many teams can agree on the direction, but still struggle to defend the numbers. In a January 2026 CloudBolt survey of North American enterprise IT decision-makers, 59% said their VMware costs increased by more than 25% […]
· February 20, 2026 · 11 min readThe past few years have turned infrastructure planning into a reactive loop. Licensing resets arrive mid-cycle. Vendor roadmaps shift without warning. “Modernization” gets demanded on timelines that do not match operational reality. For teams running large virtualization estates, the goal is not to chase novelty – it is to regain control. That means predictable operations,
· February 12, 2026 · 4 min readIf you’re evaluating VMware alternatives in 2026, you’re not alone. Broadcom-era licensing shifts, renewal pressure, and operational risk have pushed virtualization teams into a forced decision cycle: replace VMware fast enough to reduce uncertainty, but thoughtfully enough to avoid trading one set of constraints for another. And the shift is showing up in analyst outlooks:
· January 23, 2026 · 12 min readLas Vegas is a fitting place for the final Gartner IOCS conference of 2025. Because for IT leaders everywhere, the odds have changed and the future of their virtualization strategy is suddenly on the line. For the first time in more than two decades, enterprises are being forced to confront a question most never considered:
· December 12, 2025 · 4 min readWell, I missed an opportunity to talk about Private Cloud Director, Community Edition. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. But the saying is “better late than never”, so here we are. Last month we released our latest version of Community Edition (CE). It’s 2025.8, known as “August” in our Slack. We released at the end of August,
· October 14, 2025 · 3 min readThe lights always shine bright in Vegas, but forget the neon—the brightest signal from Omnissa ONE 2025 was Horizon VDI running on Platform9. Shining like a beacon for users looking to rehome their Horizon VDI solution, Omnissa’s big reveal at this year’s event was a shift from being a VMware-only VDI platform to supporting multiple
· October 8, 2025 · 4 min readMany IT teams are watching the unfolding VMware situation and feeling that it looks less like change and more like a reckoning. Enterprises are facing steep licensing changes, skyrocketing costs, and a creeping sense that control is slipping away. Organizations have thousands of virtualized hosts that need to find a new home. That’s why we
· August 12, 2025 · 4 min readA new partnership brings together Platform9’s modern private cloud experience and Commvault’s proven cyber resilience, delivering backup, DR, and workload protection for enterprises. As a Chief Technology Officer at Platform9, I’ve had countless conversations with enterprise IT leaders who all echo the same concern: how can we modernize our infrastructure without sacrificing security or operational
· July 9, 2025 · 4 min readEnterprise infrastructure teams are at a pivotal moment. Private clouds have never been more important for organizations, as new workloads demand on-premises deployment. At the same time, VMware’s licensing and business model changes under Broadcom are forcing many organizations to evaluate alternatives for a private cloud foundation. The immediate need is clear: a reliable, enterprise-grade
· June 18, 2025 · 7 min readSummary Looking for enterprise VMware alternatives? Understand the difference between hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and disaggregated architectures. Learn why disaggregation offers greater flexibility, how VMware originally enabled this model, and how modern private clouds like Platform9 Private Cloud Director continue this open, ecosystem-friendly, hardware-agnostic path. Introduction: Why look beyond VMware? With Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, enterprises
· May 6, 2025 · 3 min readWouldn’t it be nice to use a storage array’s tools to manage a virtual machine’s storage, especially if it was as easy as connecting it to your virtual machine (VM) using an API? That’s exactly how the Platform9 Private Cloud Director, the best VMware alternative, approaches storage. Let’s review what we’ve always done with VMware,
· April 24, 2025 · 6 min readOne of the greatest strengths of FinOps is its ability to focus on driving business value. However, many teams, especially engineering teams, struggle to directly connect their work and their use of cloud services to the associated business outcome. When cloud financial management was in its infancy (circa 2015) the driving focus was the price
· June 18, 2024 · 8 min read