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…
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.…
Partnership Expands Access to Enterprise-Grade Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Across the U.S. and Canada
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…
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,…
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…
Technical debt costs US enterprises an estimated $2.41 trillion per year, according to Accenture research cited by AWS. For most organisations, roughly 30% of engineering time gets absorbed by maintaining legacy systems – work that’s necessary, but produces no new business value. That’s the problem AWS has been trying to solve with AWS Transform, its…
Opti9 is one of a select group of AWS Solution Provider Partners to complete Anthropic’s separate reseller qualification process, giving customers direct access to Claude models through Amazon Bedrock without additional approvals or procurement complexity. Opti9 recently announced it has been approved as an authorized reseller for Anthropic models through Amazon Bedrock, further strengthening its…
The debate over lift and shift versus refactoring is one of the most persistent in cloud migration planning. It’s also frequently framed as a binary choice when it shouldn’t be. Most organizations will do both — the question is which approach applies to which workload, and in what order. Getting this decision wrong is expensive.…
