If you’ve worked through evaluating VMware alternatives, built a production readiness checklist, and modeled the cost comparison, you’re ready for the part that actually matters: migrating off VMware without breaking production. This is the final piece in our VMware alternatives series, and it’s the one that bridges planning and execution. Everything upstream — evaluation, cost
· March 6, 2026 · 13 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
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
· February 13, 2026 · 12 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
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
· January 30, 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
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
· August 21, 2025 · 6 min read
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
· August 12, 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
Wouldn’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 read
Most practitioners agree that free trial versions of enterprise infrastructure software are essential for gaining a firm understanding of how that product works. Whether you’re a new practitioner or a seasoned virtualization admin (vAdmin), testing a platform in a risk-free environment allows you to make informed decisions on how (or if) it fits your needs.
· April 21, 2025 · 4 min read
