The VMware dependency audit problem didn’t start with the Broadcom renewal. Most organizations could answer what ran on VMware. Very few could answer what depended on VMware — behaviorally, operationally, and at the recovery layer. The difference became expensive the moment the renewal conversation started. The licensing bill arrived. The vmware dependency audit didn’t exist….
Somewhere around 2025, the enterprise conversation about VMware quietly rewrote its own objective. “Replace VMware” became “reduce VMware dependency” — not in any formal announcement, not in a strategy document, but in the actual architecture decisions organizations were making as migration programs ran longer than planned and the complexity of what they were replacing became…
The vmware skills gap that stalls migrations is not a certification problem. It is not a headcount problem. It is an operating model problem — and most VMware exit plans never model it. When an organization exits VMware, the platform changes. The operating model — the accumulated behavior, toolchain fluency, and institutional memory built over…
Azure VMware Solution looks like the safe path out of a Broadcom licensing conversation. Your team already knows vSphere. Your tooling already maps to VMware constructs. AVS lets you move workloads to Azure without retraining anyone or rearchitecting anything. On paper, the risk profile looks low. In practice, you’re not choosing where to run workloads….
The control plane shift is the most important infrastructure concept of 2026 — and most teams are experiencing it three or four times simultaneously without recognizing it as the same decision each time. Your VMware renewal lands on the desk. The number is larger than last year. You open a spreadsheet and start modeling Nutanix….
The Velero CNCF backup announcement at KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam was framed as an open source governance story. Broadcom had contributed Velero — its Kubernetes-native backup, restore, and migration tool — to the CNCF Sandbox, where it was accepted by the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. The Sandbox application was originally filed in February 2026….
Nutanix vs VMware used to be a hypervisor evaluation. It isn’t anymore. Pre-Broadcom, the VMware vs. Nutanix conversation was an architecture conversation. You weighed feature sets, performance characteristics, ecosystem depth, and operational fit. The hypervisor was a technical decision. Post-Broadcom, the unit of decision changed entirely. You are no longer optimizing architecture. You are optimizing…
You didn’t underestimate VMware licensing. You underestimated how it’s calculated. That distinction matters more than it sounds. The teams that get surprised by VMware renewal numbers aren’t making arithmetic errors. They’re modeling the wrong thing entirely — counting virtual machines when the invoice is counting physical cores, projecting year-one costs when the real exposure is…
The InfiniBand vs RoCEv2 decision has been settled at the hyperscaler level — and the answer is Ethernet. Broadcom’s March 2026 earnings confirmed what most AI infrastructure architects had already suspected: roughly 70% of new AI infrastructure deployments are now choosing Ethernet-based fabrics over InfiniBand. That number is worth sitting with for a moment —…
