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The Coming Private Cloud Reset

February 18, 2026

The days of building a customized private cloud based upon VMware’s features have ended. Broadcom’s decision to stop licensing vSphere as a standalone solution makes that apparent. This change in software licensing will force organizations to do more than identify viable VMware alternatives.

Instead, they must consider how they will implement a private cloud going forward. This requires that they identify providers that offer the private cloud functionality they seek. To do so, they must first define the features they want a private cloud to possess.

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Beyond Hypervisor Swap – The Strategic Private Cloud Decision

February 5, 2026

Two simultaneous disruptions force infrastructure decisions across enterprises of all sizes: VMware licensing under Broadcom and Dell’s pivot away from VxRail. Organizations must consider whether to adopt a comprehensive private cloud architecture or merely replace one hypervisor with another.

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HYCU-X Piggybacks on Existing HCI Platforms to Put Itself in the Scale-out Backup Conversation

December 27, 2018

Vendors are finding multiple ways to enter the scale-out hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) backup conversation. Some acquire other companies such as StorageCraft did in early 2017 with its acquisition of ExaBlox. Others build their own such as Cohesity and Commvault did. Yet among these many iterations of scale-out, HCI-based backup systems, HYCU’s decision to piggyback its new HYCU-X on top of existing HCI offerings, starting with Nutanix’s AHV HCI Platform, represents one of the better and more insightful ways to deliver backup using a scale-out architecture.

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VMware Shows New Love for Public Clouds and Containers

September 5, 2017

In recent months and years, many have come to question VMware’s commitment to public clouds and containers used by enterprise data centers (EDCs). No one disputes that VMware has a solid footprint in EDCs and that it is in no immediate danger of being displaced. However, many have wondered how or if it will engage with public cloud providers such as Amazon as well as how it would address threats posed by Docker. At VMworld 2017, VMware showed new love for these two technologies that should help to alleviate these concerns.

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DCIG Announces Calendar of Planned Buyer’s Guide Releases in the First Half of 2015

February 6, 2015

At the beginning of 2014, I started the year with the theme: “it’s an exciting time to be part of the DCIG team”. This was due to the explosive growth we saw in website visits and popularity of our Buyer’s Guides. That hasn’t changed. DCIG Buyer’s Guides continue to grow in popularity, but what’s even more exciting is the diversity of our new products and services. This year’s theme is diversity: a range of different things. DCIG is expanding…again…in different directions.

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DCIG Updating the Private Cloud Storage Array Buyer’s Guide

January 28, 2015

DCIG is in the process of researching the Private Cloud Storage Array marketplace with the intention of publishing the DCIG 2015-16 Private Cloud Storage Array Buyers Guide in March/April 2015. This will be an update to the DCIG 2013 Private Cloud Storage Array Buyers Guide. Since the publication of 2013 edition, nearly every vendor has come out with new models and new vendors have arrived on the scene warranting a fresh snapshot of this dynamic marketplace.

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