The VMware Maze: A Clear Path to Your Virtualisation Future

The Uncertainty of Change: How Businesses Can Navigate the Evolving VMware Landscape.

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has sent shockwaves through the IT community. IT Leaders are now evaluating a new reality: a shift from perpetual licences to subscriptions, limited product realignment, and an uncertain future for on-premises deployments. These changes raise concerns about long-term costs, flexibility, and the overall implementation of the virtualisation strategy with VMware. 

A Crossroads: Re-evaluating Your Virtualisation Journey 

In this new landscape, businesses need to re-evaluate their virtualisation strategy. It's time to proactively reassess your business needs and constraints in light of Broadcom's changes. This comprehensive evaluation is an opportunity to assess your current infrastructure, applications, and evolving needs. By taking this proactive step, you can create a personalised application delivery roadmap that considers future software spend and maintains cloud deployment flexibility and availability. This will optimise your approach and ensure a smooth transition despite the changing landscape. 

A Hosted VMware Solution: The First Step on Your Roadmap 

While the transition to subscriptions and the cloud can be daunting, there are ways to navigate each company's VMware maze. A hosted VMware solution can be the first step on your virtualisation roadmap, providing a clear path forward or, at the very least, giving you time to re-think your computing platform needs in the long term. 

What are the benefits of a hosted VMware solution?

Reduced Complexity: Offload server licensing, hardware management, scalability, and security to a trusted provider. 

Cost certainty: predictable costs reduce the uncertainty of future on-premises licencing increases. 

Enhanced Performance: Leverage a scalable, multi-datacenter cloud environment with increased uptime and enterprise-grade security. 

Uninterrupted Operations: Enjoy 24/7 platform support and proactive management to ensure your VMware environment runs smoothly. 

VMware Familiarity: Retain the feature-rich VMware solution you know and trust. 

UK-Based Hosting: Benefit from data residency and compliance requirements met by a UK-based provider. 

What to Be Mindful of? : Choosing the Right Partner

Not all hosted VMware solution providers are created equal. Many are simply resellers of cloud solutions. For a truly optimised solution, consider a full-spectrum cloud provider like hSo. 

A mature, full-spectrum solution partner will be able to offer a complete suite of cloud, network, and security solutions, ensuring your infrastructure is secure, scalable, and compliant. 

The right partner should also be able to offer simplified management, compliance certainty, and, finally, peace of mind.

A Better Alternative: The Power of Choice 

Some solution providers might push you to abandon VMware altogether. However, there is an easier option! Moving your VMs to a hosted VMware cloud allows you to retain the familiarity and functionality of VMware while gaining the advantages of cloud hosting.

This also allows you to pursue alternative options without enduring any major disruptions to your day-to-day operations.You can also save money, time and reduce risk, as well as delaying investment in hardware upgrades. Not bad hey?

Why We Created Our VMware-Based Cloud 

We understand that businesses want the best of both worlds: the scalability and agility of the public cloud combined with the security and control of on-premises deployments. Our hosted VMware cloud delivers exactly that. 

hSo’s VMware Cloud: Combining Expertise and Infrastructure

Some solution providers might push you to abandon VMware altogether. However, there is an easier option! Moving your VMs to a hosted VMware cloud allows you to retain the familiarity and functionality of VMware while gaining the advantages of cloud hosting.

• VMware Cloud Director for seamless management. 
• Enterprise-grade hardware for optimal performance. 
• A resilient, multi-gigabit network for reliable connectivity. 
• Advanced service monitoring for proactive issue identification. 
• Secure data centres that are located throughout the UK for data residency and compliance. 
• A team of virtualization experts to provide ongoing support and guidance.

By choosing a hosted VMware cloud solution, you take the first step on a clear path to your virtualisation future. This initial step provides a stable, secure, and cost-effective foundation upon which you can build your customised virtualisation roadmap. 

Are you ready to take control? 

Let us help you navigate the evolving VMware landscape. Contact us today to discuss your virtualisation requirements and explore how a hosted VMware cloud solution can be the first step on your virtualisation journey. 

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