Most VMware migrations start with one question: What hypervisor are we moving to? It’s an important decision, but it’s not the one that will determine how well your organization recovers from the next outage or ransomware attack.
A VMware migration is one of the few opportunities to rethink the entire infrastructure stack. Yet many organizations replace the hypervisor only to rebuild the same fragmented backup, disaster recovery, and data protection architecture around it.
What if your VMware exit could also simplify operations, strengthen cyber resilience, and improve recovery, without adding another layer of tools to manage?
In this session, we'll explore how modern Private Cloud Infrastructure takes a different approach. Instead of treating backup and disaster recovery as separate products, it integrates compute, storage, networking, snapshots, replication, immutable copies, and disaster recovery orchestration into a single platform. At the same time, it continues to support the enterprise backup solutions many organizations already rely on, including Veeam.
We'll discuss:
Why a VMware migration is the ideal time to modernize your resilience strategy, not just your virtualization platform.
How integrated data protection can reduce operational complexity while accelerating recovery.
Ways to improve ransomware readiness with native immutable recovery capabilities.
How to simplify disaster recovery planning without replacing the tools your team already trusts.
Rather than focusing on product features, we'll walk through a live failover and recovery demonstration to show how an integrated platform protects and restores production workloads in practice.
If you're already evaluating your path beyond VMware, this session will help you think beyond the migration itself and use the transition to build a more resilient, easier-to-manage infrastructure.
featured speakers
George Crump
Chief Marketing Officer, Verge.io
George Crump is Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO and a longtime industry analyst. He founded Storage Switzerland, an analyst firm covering storage, virtualization, and data protection, where he advised IT teams and published widely on infrastructure strategy. He has spent more than two decades helping organizations pull cost and complexity out of the data center, and he now leads that message at VergeIO.
David Vincent
Technical Solutions Strategist, Verge.io
David Vincent is a Technical Evangelist at VergeIO, where he shows IT teams how VergeOS runs compute, storage, networking, and data protection from a single code base. He works directly with organizations planning their move off VMware, and he runs the live migration and recovery demonstrations in VergeIO sessions. His focus is the practical side of the exit, from first proof of concept to production.
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