Navigating the New VMware Reality: What Broadcom’s Changes Mean for Your Business
When Broadcom completed its $69 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023, most customers assumed the initial disruption would settle. Licensing models would stabilise. Partner programmes would find a new equilibrium. Pricing would normalise. Two years in, it’s clear that didn’t happen. Industry analysts now describe the post-acquisition environment as a structural reset rather than…
Building a Future-Proof Cloud Strategy Without VMware
For two decades, VMware was the default answer for virtualization. It worked, it was well supported, and the commercial terms were predictable enough that infrastructure strategy could largely ignore the underlying platform and focus on workloads. Broadcom’s acquisition ended that. Perpetual licences are gone. Product catalogues have collapsed from 168 offerings into four mandatory bundles.…
Opti9 Technologies Named Exclusive North American Distributor for Virtuozzo
Partnership Expands Access to Enterprise-Grade Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Across the U.S. and Canada
Disaster Recovery for Multi-Site Businesses: Protecting Branch Offices Without Multiplying Cost
Here’s the DR planning problem that businesses with multiple locations run into: the math doesn’t scale. If you have one office, you need one DR solution. Straightforward. But if you have five offices, or ten, or fifteen, the traditional approach says you need DR infrastructure at every site, or at least a secondary site that…
How to Build a Disaster Recovery Architecture on AWS with Veeam
Most organisations know they need disaster recovery. Far fewer know what a well-designed DR architecture actually looks like. The gap between “we have backups” and “we can recover our business in under an hour” is architectural. It’s the difference between storing copies of your data somewhere offsite and building a recovery environment that’s been pre-configured,…
The 7 Rs of AWS Application Migration: Choosing the Right Path for Each Workload
Most application migration projects fail the same way: someone picks a single strategy for the entire portfolio, then tries to force every workload into it. Lift-and-shift everything to meet a data centre exit deadline. Refactor everything because someone read a cloud-native manifesto. Retire nothing because no one wants to make the decision. AWS’s 7 Rs…