Today’s CIOs and CTOs are stuck between two real pressures. Development teams need infrastructure now. Compliance teams need control that holds up under audit. When either side wins completely, the organization loses. If it takes two weeks to get a VM through a request queue, teams don’t wait. They open a public cloud account. They
· May 8, 2026 · 4 min read
Providing private cloud resources across multiple teams is a standard deployment model in the modern data center. Whether you’re splitting infrastructure between Finance and Engineering, giving unique customers their own isolated infrastructure, or managing dev, staging, and production as distinct environments, multi-tenancy is table stakes in a virtualized environment. Deploying and managing isolated environments is
· April 27, 2026 · 9 min read
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware didn’t just raise prices; it broke the math that most MSPs built their managed services practice on. If your margins depended on VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) program pricing, you’ve probably already done the calculation and the numbers don’t work anymore. But the real problem isn’t the cost increase. It’s that
· April 16, 2026 · 6 min read
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
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
If you’re an MSP or CSP, you already know the headline: Broadcom cancelled the VCSP program, and the window to find an alternative is closing fast. What’s less talked about is the compounding problem underneath it. The VMware stack you need to replace isn’t one product — it’s six, each with its own license, its
· March 18, 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
We’ve had numerous conversations with VMware users exploring alternatives to VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Across these discussions, common questions keep coming up: In this blog, we’ve compiled a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) from VMware users evaluating Platform9 Private Cloud Director—along with clear, concise answers to help guide your
· April 28, 2025 · 11 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
Gartner just published a research note titled “Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migrations” that details the burdens expected for large-sized companies moving off of VMware. The Register’s Simon Sharwood wrote an article on this research note. He highlighted the concerns tens of thousands of VMware customers are facing that large-scale migrations are daunting, often taking
· January 30, 2025 · 3 min read
In this blog post, we will cover the following OpenStack vs VMware topics: Why now is the time to look for VMware alternatives? Common alternatives to VMware: A quick comparison of Proxmox, Nutanix, and Hyper-V Reasons why OpenStack faced challenges in initial enterprise adoption OpenStack has become a mature and enterprise-ready VMware alternative solution today
· May 20, 2024 · 8 min read
OpenStack has always been viewed as an open-source innovation in the cloud computing world, offering a comprehensive suite of features for scalable cloud infrastructure and proven capabilities to replace VMware in the data center. However, OpenStack’s extensive functionality comes at the expense of complexity, with complex components such as Nova, Cinder, Neutron, and others making
· March 15, 2024 · 3 min read