In 2023, with the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, drastic changes were implemented in every way, both in the licensing scheme (no longer existing perpetual licenses) and in the way this technology is commercialized. So if you are a VMware customer, it is crucial to start migrating your loads to the cloud.
As a VMware customer, you must imperatively review the licensing and contract scheme you handle, raising the costs of maintaining servers in this regard.
The most relevant changes that affect you as a VMware customer are the following:
> New business models that change pricing schemes for VMware partners and customers.
> End of perpetual licenses.
> New subscription models for certain products with short-term and long-term subscriptions with usage-based licensing.
> Price increase of nearly 40%, impacting every VMware customer as a perpetual license user.
> Changes in renewal policies.
> Increased focus on the cloud, which makes virtualization solutions different.
Benefits of Migrating as a VMware Customer to AWS Native
In conversations with our customers in years past, the concern of migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS) revolved around how to maintain the current architecture, dependencies, and connectivity. For this reason, we constantly heard from his own voice the latent fear of migrating to native services such as EC2 or RDS, preferring VMC schemes that were expensive and without taking advantage of the benefits of the cloud per se.
Migrating loads from a VMware client to native service schemes brings great benefits to businesses, such as:
> The loads can be optimized in costs and rightsizing, since being in an EC2 the instance is sought according to what is required, with the opportunity to change it as the behavior of the applications is understood.
> Licensing is no longer a problem, since in VMware Microsoft licensing, for example, must be purchased separately as in a regular physical server and updated, which at the time of quotation was not fully reflected and remained a hidden cost.
> In AWS, machines have the possibility of quoting with the operating system, both for servers and databases, always maintaining the most current and under an on-demand scheme, as well as the instances.
> When migrating to EC2, the path to modernization is much simpler than when trying to do it from a VMware client schema.
> Another problem is that VMware loads are often unupdated, over-provisioned, and without the needs that our end users now require. This represents a security risk, and the cost of over-provisioned machines impacts annual technology spending.
> Maintaining loads under the VMware client schema also delays the adoption of powerful databases such as self-managed ones, limiting low-cost multi-AZ schemes such as RDS on AWS.
Currently, companies need to stop thinking about rigid infrastructures that do not have scalability and that, when machines with better performance in terms of processing are required, the change is fast or even greater capacity is incorporated.
When you migrate as a VMware customer natively to AWS, it also allows you to design disruptive architectures, properly separating workloads, protecting data or core systems, isolating them from others and with a FinOps strategy. In this way, it is possible to properly identify the technology budgets invested by area.
About IT Governance
When we manage a cloud environment, the Government is facilitated. Whether with native AWS services that allow great control over strategy, access, policies, projects; or with the hassle-free incorporation of agility tools.
When migrating as a VMware customer to an AWS-native environment, the adoption of generative AI or Data Analytics is transparent and fast-paced. This is because everything is part of a whole with an incredible adaptability and services typical of the cloud.
Leveraging AWS Incentives Ensures a Migration with Excellence
When you make the decision to evaluate towards AWS it is not something you do alone. This cloud has free programs that allow us to analyze the infrastructure of our VMware customers.
Accompanied by professional services from Itera and AWS experts, these programs carry out the business analysis and design a successful migration plan with tests and validations before placing it in production.
And finally, AWS provides special financial benefits to those customers who come from a virtualized infrastructure on VMware. Favorably impacting each VMware customer in the business case to be evaluated
Based on our experience, we can say that:
> You have to lose the fear of migrating to AWS instances, because there is a pool of tools, incentives, and experts that accompany you throughout the process.
> We must evaluate each VMware customer as soon as possible due to the cost overflow with the arrival of Broadcom.
> Preparing our infrastructure to innovate must be a priority for the next 2 years.
> Having serverless, multi-AZ architectures is no longer a luxury, but a necessity to have a difference in the market.
> AWS-native schemes offer cost options with attractive savings versus what you pay as a VMware customer.
> The issue of licensing in native AWS schemes is no longer a problem and a risk for the business, specifically talking about Microsoft and Linux.
> The strategy of a cost-effective infrastructure is based on a Cloud Government in visibility, automation and scalability. Something that as a VMware customer you do not receive or have access to.
> Take advantage of the financial benefits that AWS offers now.
> By having Itera’s help to design the successful path, it ensures that it is a transparent migration.
See You in the Cloud!
Migrating as a VMware customer to native AWS services means breaking the paradigm of on-premise infrastructure to make way for an Innovation strategy that allows increasing the return on investment thanks to a better experience for customers, fast delivery capacity and a real and constant cost strategy.
Companies require a change in the way they operate, adapting and preparing for the speed that the world demands of us. Are you confident that your on-premise infrastructure will allow you to remain operationally efficient in the next 5 years?
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