Before comparing VMware alternatives, decide what outcome you want from the move. Almost any alternative can swap the hypervisor and cut the VMware licensing burden. Stopping there is the hypervisor swap trap. IT keeps the separate storage, networking and backup products, and two years later faces the same costs and complexity under a new logo.
This session focuses on the Day 2 problems that remain once licensing costs come down. Can each alternative address challenges that matter as much as the licensing savings, and often more?
Infrastructure complexity: the separate products, consoles and upgrade cycles it takes to run a handful of servers
Data center inflation: hardware refresh, licensing, support and power costs that climb every year, even when the environment stays the same size
Distributed data centers: multiple small sites, each with its own servers, that the same small central IT team still has to manage
AI cost and control: rapidly escalating cloud AI token costs, legitimate data sovereignty concerns, and the high cost of building an internal AI stack
The comparison is built for mid-market IT, meaning 4 to 20 servers in total across all sites and a team of three to five, where one generalist has to run the whole platform. Aaron Richman and Dave Vincent of VergeIO walk through Nutanix, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Scale Computing and HPE VM Essentials, then show in a live demo how VergeOS solves all four in a single platform.
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Aaron richman
Field Evangelist, Verge.io
Aaron Richman is a Field Evangelist at VergeIO, where he works with IT organizations modernizing their infrastructure platform software. He joined VergeIO as Director of Business Development and has spent the last several years in front of the IT teams making that decision, which gives him a direct view of what infrastructure modernization costs and what the real-world ROI is, as well as gains in daily operational efficiency, data resilience, and recovery. He now focuses on the practical case for modernization and on showing how VergeOS runs compute, storage, networking, and data protection from a single code base.
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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