What’s Your Broadcom VMware Exit Strategy? Take Control of Your Choices
Lately, one question has been appearing again and again with infrastructure teams we talk to, “What is our VMware exit strategy?”
As virtualization costs climb and vendor lock-in tightens its grip, this moment is an opportunity to reconsider your virtualization strategy. For too long, expensive renewals seem like the path of least resistance. But in a market where agility wins, sticking with the status quo is just holding you back.
So, how do you modernize without breaking the systems your business relies on?
Our upcoming webinar provides actionable strategies to address this shift.
The cost of the status quo
The challenge is clear: rising TCO is eating into the budget meant for growth. When you’re locked into a proprietary stack, you’re forced to pay more for less and less choice.
Infrastructure teams are being asked to absorb higher licensing costs while simultaneously supporting AI, modern applications, and legacy workloads on increasingly fragmented platforms.
And the pain is more than just financial. For infrastructure teams, the pain is also operational. Managing VMs and containers in disconnected silos slows down delivery and adds layers of unnecessary complexity. You don’t need a different set of tools and workflows just because a workload hasn’t been containerized yet.
A modern path forward: VMs and containers, together
Modernization shouldn’t require choosing between your virtual machines and your cloud native future. You need an environment where they run side-by-side on a single, open platform.
Enterprise readiness is not defined by price or branding. It is defined by reliability, security, scalability and operational clarity. Modern platforms built on hardened KVM and Kubernetes foundations are already supporting financial institutions, federal agencies and global enterprises that demand zero downtime and long-term flexibility.
By bringing these workloads under a single control plane with GitOps-driven operations, your teams can modernize incrementally. By applying consistent operational practices across both traditional VMs and cloud native applications without forcing disruptive rewrites, you can:
- Reduce TCO and ditch lock-in pricing and reinvest in growth.
- Simplify operations and eliminate siloed workflows with a single management plane.
- De-risk the transition to modernize your stack at your own pace, on your own terms.
- Prevent this situation from happening again by choosing an open platform
We aren’t just talking about swapping one hypervisor for another. Proven migration paths now allow organizations to move hundreds of VMs in days, reducing contract exposure while keeping critical systems stable. We’re talking about taking back control of your roadmap.
Join us live: February 5, 2026
To help you navigate these shifts, we are hosting a live, interactive webinar to discuss the future of open virtualization.
The details:
- Webinar: What’s your VMware exit strategy? How to successfully modernize with an open platform
- When: February 5, 2026 at 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST
- Who: Peter Smails (SVP & GM, Cloud Native at SUSE) and Forbes Guthrie (Director, Product Management – Virtualization & Storage at SUSE)
What we will cover:
- How to de-risk the transition from VMware.
- How to determine the “Enterprise Readiness” of your current VMs.
- Why other organizations are leaving traditional providers behind and what their results look like.
Don’t let legacy constraints dictate your future. Join us to learn how to take back control of your infrastructure.
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