There is no shortage of lists of VMware alternatives. There is a shortage of help deciding which one belongs in your environment, and whether every workload should move at all. That second question is the one that gets skipped. Most migration conversations start from the assumption that the whole estate leaves together, because that is…
Recovery time objective (RTO) is how long a system can be down before the impact becomes unacceptable. Recovery point objective (RPO) is how much data the business can afford to lose, measured as a window of time before the incident. RTO looks forward from the moment things break. RPO looks backward from it. That distinction…
The acquisition expands Opti9’s Canadian cloud presence, geographic reach and capabilities for customers and channel partners.
Opti9 Named 2025 Veeam VCSP Partner of the Year for the Americas Recognition reflects Opti9’s continued growth, technical expertise, channel model and commitment to resilient customer outcomes Ottawa, ON, Canada – July 23, 2026 – Opti9 today announced that it has been named the 2025 Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) Partner of the Year…
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.…
