"VMware Alternative" or "Private Cloud OS"?
Organizations exiting VMware are evaluating hypervisor alternatives—but hypervisor swaps only address licensing costs, not the infrastructure complexity and operational overhead costing five times more. Vendor marketing around private cloud has created...
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Organizations exiting VMware are evaluating hypervisor alternatives—but hypervisor swaps only address licensing costs, not the infrastructure complexity and operational overhead costing five times more. Vendor marketing around "private cloud" has created confusion about what buyers are actually purchasing and whether they're solving the right problem.
Join SmallWorldBig Data analyst Mike Matchett and VergeIO CMO George Crump for a fireside chat examining vendor strategies, architectural models, and the questions buyers should ask before making infrastructure decisions.
This session provides an independent analysis of:
- Why hypervisor replacement solves licensing but preserves operational problems
- Orchestration vs integration: How to validate architectural differences beneath unified management interfaces
- Hardware flexibility, efficiency gains, and operational costs are ignored in procurement
- Decision frameworks for evaluating whether hypervisor replacement or infrastructure consolidation fits your operational model
The fireside chat is followed by a live demonstration showing integrated Private Cloud OS architecture in practice—unified control plane, platform-level caching, Virtual Data Center multi-tenancy, single-path lifecycle management, and hardware flexibility.
Presenters:
Mike Matchett, SmallWorldBig Data - Independent industry analyst
Mike Matchett, SmallWorldBig Data - Independent industry analyst
George Crump, VergeIO - CMO, former industry analyst, Storage Switzerland founder