If you’re an MSP right now, you’re probably managing at least two uncomfortable conversations simultaneously. The first is about your virtualization platform—costs are up, licensing has changed, and everyone wants to know what your VMware story looks like going forward. The second is about AI: customers are asking about it, vendors are pitching it, and […]
· April 13, 2026 · 9 min read
This is the first post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. Everything you can do in the Private Cloud Director (PCD) UI, you can do through an API. Creating VMs, managing networks, configuring storage, assigning users to tenants. All of it. That’s not an afterthought; the UI itself is an API client. In this
· April 6, 2026 · 7 min read
If you’re evaluating a VMware alternative, monitoring is one of the first topics that comes up. It’s a capability that quietly blocks a migration if it’s missing. Your team already has dashboards, alerting rules, and capacity planning workflows built around vCenter and vROps. The question isn’t whether Private Cloud Director (PCD) has monitoring. It’s whether
· April 2, 2026 · 6 min read
A guide for MSPs navigating the VMware conversation with confidence Something shifted in the VMware world when Broadcom completed its acquisition. Licensing costs spiked, support models changed, and customers who had never given a second thought to their virtualization stack were suddenly calling their MSPs asking what it all means. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: your
· March 31, 2026 · 9 min read
Most managed service providers didn’t see it coming, not because they weren’t paying attention, but because the nature of the risk had been hiding in plain sight. VMware’s pricing overhaul wasn’t just a contract renegotiation. It was a structural revelation: what the industry had long treated as enterprise-standard infrastructure was, in reality, a dependency with
· March 25, 2026 · 6 min read
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 read
The 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 read
If 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 read
Las 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 read
Well, 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 read
The 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 read
Many 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 read