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InfiniBand Is Losing the Fabric War. Here’s What That Changes for Your Architecture.
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 —…
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Proxmox vs Nutanix vs VMware: The Post-Broadcom Constraints No One Explains
The Proxmox vs Nutanix vs VMware decision looks different in 2026 than it did two years ago. Broadcom didn’t just change VMware pricing — it changed the decision model entirely. This is no longer a feature comparison between hypervisors. Every enterprise infrastructure team re-evaluating their platform right now is working through the same problem, and…
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March 31 Isn’t a Deadline. It’s a Forced Architecture Decision.
>_ Update — April 2026 March 31 has passed. Broadcom’s VCSP termination completed on schedule — no EU interim measures were granted, and the European Commission confirmed only that the CISPE antitrust complaint is being assessed under standard procedures. The forced architecture decision this post mapped is now in execution for thousands of affected organizations….
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Kubernetes as the VMware Exit Ramp: How Platform Teams Are Reducing VMware Dependence
The Kubernetes VMware migration path is not what most platform teams expect. Thirty-three percent of enterprises evaluating VMware alternatives are selecting Kubernetes as their primary control plane for the transition. Not as the destination — as the mechanism. The distinction matters architecturally, and most of the coverage on this topic misses it entirely. Kubernetes does…
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The Broadcom Legal Playbook: Why the VMware Lawsuits Are Accelerating Enterprise Exit Timelines
>_ Update — March 19, 2026 Breaking today: CISPE — the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe — has filed an urgent request with EU antitrust regulators asking them to temporarily halt Broadcom’s termination of the VMware Cloud Service Provider program across Europe. The filing argues that Broadcom’s January 2026 decision to terminate all but…
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Nutanix vs VMware: Availability vs Authority in the Post-Broadcom Datacenter (2026)
Executive Summary The nutanix vs vmware 2026 comparison starts in the wrong place when it focuses on features. Today, that framing is obsolete. Modern outages rarely originate from hardware failure—they originate from control-plane failure: identity providers, automation systems, API trust chains, orchestration layers, and update propagation. This guide reframes the Nutanix vs VMware decision around…
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Proxmox isn’t “Free” vSphere: The Hidden Physics of ZFS and Ceph
Proxmox ZFS vs Ceph storage is the decision that determines whether your VMware exit succeeds or quietly destroys your IOPS. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware forced thousands of teams to ask a dangerous question: “Why not just move everything to Proxmox? It’s free.” On paper, Proxmox VE is the perfect escape hatch. It is open-source, capable,…
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The “Lift-and-Shift” Lie: Why “Like-for-Like” Architectures Fail in a Post-Broadcom World
A VMware to HCI migration strategy built on “keep it exactly the same” is how 60% of virtualization migrations fail to meet their ROI targets. The Board approved the budget, you selected your destination — Nutanix AHV, maybe Proxmox — and the mandate came down: “Just move everything over.” That sentence—“Just move everything over”—is why…
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The Multi-Hypervisor Future: How Architects Are Designing Beyond VMware
Architecting beyond VMware is no longer a contingency plan — it is the primary cost and risk management strategy for enterprise infrastructure in 2026. In my fifteen years of architecting enterprise stacks, I’ve seen vendors come and go, but I’ve never seen a shift quite like the one we are witnessing today. For two decades,…
