Category: Virtualization

Two-for-One Unified Infrastructure Platform Key to a Successful VMware Exit

Organizations evaluating Kubernetes increasingly find themselves trying to solve two interconnected challenges: modernizing applications while reducing their VMware dependency. To achieve this objective, more organizations evaluate layered Kubernetes architectures built on VMware-centric environments. However, these layered architectures create their own set of challenges. Built on separate virtualization, storage, networking, and Kubernetes operational domains, they become costly and difficult to implement and maintain. To avoid these challenges, organizations should consider choosing a unified infrastructure platform that offers a two-for-one. This platform supports both VM and cloud-native workloads while offering a consistent operational model to manage them.

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Nutanix’s Support for External Storage Systems Comes with Qualifications

Finding and adopting an alternative to VMware represents a top priority for many enterprises, regardless of their size. So, it was no surprise this topic was top of mind for many attendees at the recent Nutanix .NEXT conference. However, up to 80 percent of enterprises utilize external storage in conjunction with some of their VMware deployments. That helps explain why Nutanix continues to prioritize supporting more external storage systems. That said, Nutanix’s existing and announced support for external storage systems comes with specific qualifications for which enterprises must account.

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The Coming Private Cloud Reset

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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VMware Alternatives SME Edition

2026-27 DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternatives – SME Edition Report Now Available

DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2026-27 DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternatives – SME Edition Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) with guidance on the best VMware alternatives for them to choose from today. This report is available for purchase for $495 by contacting DCIG via email. DCIG will respond and provide instructions on how to purchase the report.

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3 Early Insights Into DCIG’s 2026 VMware vSphere Alternatives Research

To say that finding a viable alternative to VMware vSphere represents a top priority for many organizations understates the obvious. Further, this push to identify an alternative may heighten in the coming months as their pre-Broadcom VMware support contracts expire. To help organizations, DCIG plans to shortly release its 2026 VMware vSphere Alternative TOP 5 reports. As DCIG finalizes its research and prepares to release these reports, we have three early insights to share into this research.

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My CEO Told Me to Do Something with AI

What practical business problems can my organization solve using artificial intelligence (AI)? That’s a fair question to ask before an organization prepares to spend perhaps millions of dollars on AI. Yet as more CEOs tell their organizations to do something with AI, organizations buy AI, and then hope it quickly shows value. However, buying AI and hoping it shows value rarely works unless an organization selects an AI solution suitable for its infrastructure.

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AI-infused solution

2024 DCIG TOP 5 Most Read Blog Entries Written in 2024

This year I handled the identification of the TOP 5 blog entries differently in two ways. First, I only considered blog entries that covered topics unrelated to the DCIG TOP 5 reports. Next week I will post a blog entry that highlights the most TOP 5 reports most downloaded from Second, I count them down in the order in which they were the most read. So, without further ado, here are the DCIG TOP 5 most read blog entries not related to announcing a specific DCIG TOP 5 report.

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