Navigating the VMware Acquisition with Microsoft
I am privileged to be in a position to speak regularly with CTOs, Infrastructure Architects, and business leaders nearly every day of the work week and a common theme has emerged. Throughout these discussions, it’s become clear that these leaders are unsettled in their disposition to the recent Broadcom / VMware acquisition and the subsequent license changes. Much like when public cloud first came on the scene, I believe this is another inflection point that will cause significant disruption in the technology marketplace. This disruption is prompting even small organizations to again re-evaluate their data center, hypervisor, and cloud strategies.
This has prompted conversations not all too dissimilar to those I had several years ago when businesses were first considering datacenter consolidations and move of workloads to the public cloud. What are my preferences? What are my business prerequisites? What choices will best suit my needs?
When it comes down to it, businesses have three main options:
- Private Cloud – Keep it all on-premises using the VMware platform or move to a replacement. My workloads are private and my investment in on-premises infrastructure is significant. It could cause too much disruption to change operating models, and it would outweigh any advantages of cost savings or modernizing.
- Public Cloud – I have nothing that can’t be moved to the cloud and near-term cost savings would be significant for my business. Moving to Public Cloud would allow me to increase my efficiencies and modernize my applications.
- Hybrid – Only some workloads must run in my data center, and most can move to the cloud. I’ll take flexibility and cost savings over the long term, and I have the capabilities to leverage modern management technology to operate both environments effectively
How ivision can help with Microsoft technologies:
1. Azure Native Migration
Why is this good?
- Completely eliminate VMware licensing dependencies for your virtual infrastructure
- Reduce your overall spend with Azure BYO licensing and reserved instances and EA commitments
- Cloud Hyper Scale and drive to innovation with PaaS and app modernization instead of traditional infrastructure
- Extended OS support for older operating systems
2. Azure VMS Solution (AVS)
What is AVS? VMware Solution is a partnership between Microsoft and VMware by Broadcom that delivers fully managed VMware environment in Azure. Why is this good?
- Long-Term Microsoft AVS License Savings
- Short-Term VMware price protection with License Portability
- Leverage existing VMWare skills, tools and processes
- Reduce your overall spend with Azure BYO licensing and reserved instances and EA commitments
- Accelerate your move to the cloud
- Extended OS support for older operating systems
Why ivision?
- As a Microsoft Managed Partner, ivision has extensive experience and expertise helping our clients make the most of Microsoft technologies.
- We’ve earned the Microsoft Advanced Specialization: Infrastructure and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure and have designed numerous solutions focused on migration and modernization, including our Azure VMware Solution Migration solution and Azure Native Cloud Migration solution.
- We have deep expertise in modern management and automation tools to help you strategically take advantage of the platform change and build flexibility and resilience into your go-forward operating model.
- Our managed services are able to fill the gap in your old or new platforms as you navigate the change, or ongoing if you would rather someone else take on day-to-day operations so you can focus on your business.
We’re eager to help you navigate this industry shift with other recommendations, like Nutanix, as well. Reach out today to speak with an expert and get started.
