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Beyond the Demo: What Our vJailbreak Migration Webinar Revealed About Safe VMware Exits

Last week, Platform9 hosted a live webinar demonstrating vJailbreak‘s VM migration capabilities. What began as a straightforward product demonstration evolved into a substantive discussion about the requirements for safely migrating production workloads away from VMware. We migrated a Windows 10 VM from vCenter to Private Cloud Director in under 19 minutes during the live session, […]

Damian Karlson · February 27, 2026 · 8 min read

Escaping VMware: 5 Takeaways from Our vJailbreak Migration Webinar

We recently hosted a live webinar where we walked through a real VM migration from vCenter to Private Cloud Director using vJailbreak, and the response was overwhelming. Not just in attendance, but in the quality of questions and the post-event survey data. The audience wasn’t just browsing. They were planning. In this post, I’d like

Damian Karlson · February 26, 2026 · 5 min read

Life After VMware: Accelerating VMware Exits with In-Place Migration

In the post-Broadcom landscape of 2026, the focus has changed from “Do I have to exit” to “What’s the best migration plan?” Organizations are no longer just looking for a new hypervisor; they are looking for an exit strategy that doesn’t interrupt their business or overload their resources. Finding the right migration strategy has the

John Laffey · February 26, 2026 · 5 min read

VMware Alternative Cost Comparison: What to Measure

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%

Platform9 · February 20, 2026 · 11 min read

The End of VCSP and How MSPs Can Cope With Change

Broadcom ended the VCSP program, leaving thousands of MSP and CSPs with an expiration date on their virtualization licenses. Now what? The clock is ticking and service providers need to find an alternative solution that maintains their margins, provides at the very least equivalent enterprise-level virtualization features, and preserves their operational model. On top of

John Laffey · February 20, 2026 · 5 min read

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

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