Are you looking for an alternative to VMware? You could opt for a one-to-one replacement. But if you want to future-proof your organization, it’s better not to limit yourself to that. You’ll also need to make several other crucial choices, especially in the current geopolitical climate.
When Broadcom acquired VMware at the end of 2023, a significant price increase followed. As a result, many companies started looking for a cheaper alternative. Cost, however, should be only one part of the equation — this transition presents the opportunity to make several critical choices.
The basis for future-proof development
You could simply look for a cheaper, one-to-one replacement for VMware. The difficulty is that there’s no solution that truly replaces VMware. More importantly, it makes sense to take a smarter approach, with a platform that supports both containerization and virtualization.”
With such a platform, you’re immediately ready for application modernization and cloud-native development using containers. At the same time, you can also continue working with virtual machines where necessary. And what’s a well-known solution that combines both containerization and virtualization? Red Hat OpenShift, of course.
The best combination of on-premises and cloud
Perhaps we’ve already convinced you to go for Red Hat OpenShift, but this is only one step in the move away from VMware. Another important thing to keep in mind is that the days when companies shifted entirely to the public cloud are largely over. More companies are opting for a hybrid cloud solution, keeping some workloads on-premises, and using the public cloud mainly during peak periods.
It’s also best not to put all your eggs in one basket. Rather than choosing a single cloud environment from just one hyperscaler, many organizations are adopting a multi-cloud approach, combining cloud environments from different hyperscalers.
Go for sovereign cloud
If you are embracing cloud-native development and application modernization, with a combination of on-prem and multi-cloud, is it worth considering sovereign cloud from the outset? In today’s geopolitical context, the short answer is increasingly yes, especially if you store business-critical data in the cloud.
One way you can achieve this sovereignty is by working with European cloud providers. A growing number of full-fledged European alternatives to traditional US-based cloud players are emerging, including OVHCloud (France) and IONOS (Germany). IONOS, in particular, offers a mature platform — so much so that Piros is migrating the cluster management for its managed services to IONOS. Meanwhile, Red Hat’s entire technology stack is now IONOS-certified.
In practice, this means that if your organization is moving away from VMware and choosing OpenShift as your virtualization and containerization solution, you can already opt for a sovereign hosting solution through Piros right now. Managed services are delivered by Piros as a Belgian company, while all data processing is handled by IONOS in Germany. And yes, although Red Hat is a US company, it is actively rolling out a European-only model, ensuring that its European teams remain entirely European. So, the path to a complete sovereign solution is wide open, and increasingly attainable with Piros.
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