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How to Evaluate VMware Alternatives in 2026: The Production Readiness Checklist

Infrastructure planning has become more reactive than strategic. Licensing resets arrive mid-cycle. Roadmaps shift without warning. Change windows stay tight. That pressure matters because the downside of “getting it wrong” is rarely abstract—outages are expensive and often tied to operational complexity. In fact, Uptime Institute’s 2024 Global Data Center Survey found that 54% of respondents […]

Platform9 · February 13, 2026 · 12 min read

What Enterprise Teams Should Expect from Private Cloud in 2026

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,

Platform9 · February 12, 2026 · 4 min read

How Veeam Works with Platform9 Private Cloud Director

If you’re considering a VMware alternative but require Veeam integration, we’re pleased to announce that Veeam Data Platform’s native integration with Platform9’s Private Cloud Director is in beta. The Universal Hypervisor API Veeam has built a Universal Hypervisor API based on oVirt, and Platform9 has implemented an adapter that translates those oVirt APIs to work

Damian Karlson · February 5, 2026 · 4 min read

Data Centers That “Think for Themselves” Won’t Happen By Magic. They’ll Happen By Governance.

AI is everywhere right now, from customer support to marketing, sales, analytics. The hype cycle is loud, the budgets are real, and the demos are getting slicker by the week. But in IT operations, the question isn’t “Can AI help?” It’s can AI help without turning your environment into a higher-speed version of the same

Platform9 · January 30, 2026 · 4 min read

VMware Alternatives in 2026: A Practical Exit Playbook

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:

Platform9 · January 23, 2026 · 12 min read

In a City Built on High Stakes, Infrastructure Leaders Are Facing Their Biggest Bet Yet: What Comes After VMware?

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:

Platform9 · December 12, 2025 · 4 min read

Your Tour of the Power-Packed Private Cloud Director, Community Edition August Release

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,

Damian Karlson · October 14, 2025 · 3 min read

Omnissa ONE 2025 Wrap-Up: Faster Horizon, Lower TCO with Platform9

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

Sirish Raghuram · October 8, 2025 · 4 min read

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Integrating Enterprise ITSM Approval Workflows with Private Cloud Director

Motivation Enterprise IT teams working in manufacturing or regulated industries require the ability to review, approve and customize workload provisioning requests being made by a broad range of self-service users. These requests may be reviewed to ensure conformance, resource availability or to satisfy custom provisioning requests. Previously, Enterprise IT teams were able to use VMware

Platform9 · August 21, 2025 · 6 min read

Private Cloud Director: August 2025 Release

Organizations searching for the private cloud solution in a post-VMware world can’t compromise on functionality. Private Cloud Director’s latest release adds more enterprise level capabilities to make replacing VMware easy, without losing critical functionality or requiring staff retraining. The newest release adds new AI hardware support and feature integration addressing top IT requirements for modern

Platform9 · August 12, 2025 · 4 min read

Escape Velocity: The Next Leap for vJailbreak and VMware Migrations

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

Platform9 · August 12, 2025 · 4 min read

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Platform9, Commvault Team Up on Private Cloud Data Protection

A 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

Roopak Parikh · July 9, 2025 · 4 min read

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