Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lasting impact on the enterprise IT landscape. Promising simplification, Broadcom’s licensing and bundling changes have instead created confusion, increased costs, and led to widespread dissatisfaction among VMware customers. Many of these customers are actively exploring alternatives, driven by frustration and the need to future-proof their IT environments.
Far from being a simple migration, transitioning away from VMware presents an opportunity to embrace modern platforms and architectures that unlock greater efficiency, performance, and agility. Emerging technologies like hybrid multi-cloud, AI, edge computing, and cloud-native architectures highlight the limitations of traditional virtualization and the necessity of adopting next-generation solutions.
Navigating this transition requires understanding the available options — cloud migration, re-virtualizing with alternative platforms, or modernizing applications to embrace containerized and serverless technologies. Each approach has unique advantages and trade-offs, and success depends on aligning the chosen path with organizational goals and capabilities. Often, organizations will use a combination of approaches based on the needs of the workload. In these cases, a platform that easily supports multiple degrees of freedom is helpful.
Choosing the right partner is critical to overcoming migration challenges and ensuring long-term success. Nutanix emerges as a leader, offering hybrid-cloud-ready solutions, best-in-class hyperconverged infrastructure, and robust support for modern workloads. Nutanix provides a seamless transition from VMware and positions organizations to fully capitalize on the potential of their IT investments.
This Research Report takes a look at how to best approach looking for a VMware alternative.
