Hypershift - a US consultancy specializing in automation, virtualization, AI, machine learning, and cloud technologies - has released a new guide to the implications of Broadcom's decision to repackage VMware's virtualization products, following its 2023 takeover of the company.
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Hypershift's recently released guide explains how revamping 56 VMware offerings has resulted in new limits on support for advanced features, meaning that organizations have been saddled with increased costs for additional licenses to uphold their previous deployment strategies.
More details can be found at https://hypershift.com/blog/broadcoms-vmware-acquisition
New VMware bundles, such as vSphere Standard and vSphere Essentials Plus, no longer provide automatic access to components like vSAN. The Hypershift guide points out that these changes are driving customers away from the VMware range to look at rival products that can more easily and economically meet their needs.
According to The New Stack newsletter, more than 95% of the world's data centers utilize at least one of VMware's component range. While Broadcom's decision to streamline VMware's standalone offerings is part of an attempt to focus on selling platforms rather than point products, some commentators feel the company has made potentially naïve errors regarding the infrastructure needed to supply modern businesses with data and applications.
Alternatively, the guide explains, Hypershift brings expertise in virtualization consulting and offers organizations a simpler way to migrate their operations from VMware systems to more suitable alternatives, such as Openshift, Nutanix, AWS, Azure, and GCP, while minimizing any disruption to production.
The guide highlights several points of consideration for companies now facing the prospect of changing their virtual hosting systems, stating, “Every organization that wants to modernize its virtual hosts should familiarize itself with Gartner’s 5 R’s: Rehosting, Refactoring, Replatforming, Rebuilding, & Replacing.”
Hypershift's guide explores these approaches, pointing out how rehosting— which moves an app from one environment to a cloud environment without making changes— is a quick solution but fails to capitalize on the capabilities of cloud-native systems.
In contrast, the guide explains how replatforming optimizes applications for better performance in their new cloud environments. A spokesperson says, “Although replatforming requires more effort than rehosting, it offers greater benefits in terms of cloud-native optimization.”
For organizations willing to commit more resources to migration, refactoring completely reworks and reassembles the architecture of applications for improved flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Finally, the guide compares CAPEX (traditional IT infrastructure, including data centers and IT personnel) and OPEX (cloud and SaaS technology) virtualization strategies, recommending the latter for its flexibility and cost-reduction benefits.
For more information, go to https://hypershift.com/blog/broadcoms-vmware-acquisition
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