Category: VMware

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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Backup Brick Wall Exists When Adopting VMware Alternatives

Organizations exploring alternatives to VMware now face an unexpected obstacle: backup. Cost pressures and hardware constraints may drive change. However, many discover their existing data protection strategies do not translate easily to new platforms. This gap introduces risk and complexity at the exact moment they seek flexibility and control. Even after identifying viable VMware alternatives and securing infrastructure, organizations often stall when they address backup integration. Their existing tools rely on tightly coupled VMware APIs and mature features that alternatives lack. As a result, backup becomes a critical barrier, forces redesigns, delays adoption, and undermines confidence in migration strategies.

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Scale Computing, Zadara Highlighted in 2026-27 DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternatives – Distributed Enterprise Edition Report

DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2026-27 DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternatives – Distributed Enterprise Edition report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides distributed enterprises with guidance on the best VMware alternatives for them to choose from today. This report highlights Scale Computing SC//Platform and Zadara zCompute as two of the TOP 5 solutions. These two providers each have licensed distribution rights to this report and may make it available at no charge. Alternatively, one may purchase the report for $495 by contacting DCIG via email. DCIG will respond and provide instructions on how to purchase the report.

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Scale Computing, VergeIO, & Zadara Highlighted in New 2026-27 DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternatives – SLED Edition Report

DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2026-27 DCIG TOP 5 VMware Alternatives – SLED Edition Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides state, local, and educational (SLED) institutions with guidance on the best VMware alternatives for them to choose from today.

This report highlights Scale Computing SC//Platform, VergeIO VergeOS, and Zadara zCompute as three of the TOP 5 solutions. Each of three providers have licensed distribution rights to this report and may make it available at no charge. Alternatively, one may purchase the report for $495 by contacting DCIG via email. DCIG will respond and provide instructions on how to purchase the report.

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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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Infrastructure Automation Simplified Using an Infrastructure Operating System

Infrastructure automation remains the gold standard by which any size organization should measure its ability to manage its IT infrastructure. Using tools such as HashiCorp’s Ansible, Packer, Prometheus, and Terraform, organizations can automate their infrastructure management. Unfortunately, these infrastructure automation tools cannot account for all the subtle complexities that exist within organizational IT infrastructures. To work consistently, these tools require an underlying end-to-end IT infrastructure that changes infrequently and offers proven APIs. In the real world, this type of stability rarely exists. Overcoming these challenges so organizations may achieve their infrastructure automation objectives requires taking an alternative approach. To do so, Verge.io offers its VergeOS infrastructure operating system (IOS) that now supports infrastructure automation software.

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Longer Server Hardware Life a Likely Benefit of Selecting the Right VMware vSphere Alternative

Nearly all organizations of all sizes face an unenviable task: dealing with ever-growing VMware vSphere software licensing costs. To avoid paying these fees, many have opted to identify viable VMware vSphere alternatives. Doing so requires, in part, calculating each alternative’s software licensing costs, and the costs of the server hardware to host it. In making these calculations, organizations may not consider the option of using server hardware they already own. VMware vSphere alternatives often require less robust hardware than VMware vSphere, creating the option for organizations to re-use server hardware.

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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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Avalanche of Hypervisor Changes Prompting DCIG to Update Its VMware vSphere Alternatives Research

Many VMware customers, industry analysts, and VMware competitors suspected that once Broadcom acquired VMware, major changes would occur. Yet no one fully foresaw the extent of the VMware software licensing changes that have occurred and continue to transpire.

To help organizations sort out this rapidly changing hypervisor market, DCIG has initiated a refresh of its research into vSphere alternatives. Current market conditions warrant that DCIG updates its research on vSphere alternatives sooner than normal.

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