MSPs and VARs seeking VMware alternatives should rethink their entire infrastructure strategy. This blog explores how partnering with a CSP built for MSPs—and powered by a unified platform like VergeOS—enables scalable, secure, multi-tenant services while simplifying VMware migration and unlocking new growth opportunities through virtual data center architectures.
Service providers currently reevaluating their reliance on VMware have a lot to consider. Rising licensing costs, complex management overhead, and shifting market dynamics push many to explore alternative platforms. Yet, transitioning successfully away from VMware requires more than just replacing…
As Managed and Cloud Service Providers (MSPs and CSPs) look for ways to optimize costs and enhance service offerings, exploring alternatives to VMware has become a strategic priority. Rising licensing fees, evolving security needs, and the demand for greater scalability are pushing providers to consider solutions that streamline operations while supporting customer demands. This blog explores the key capabilities MSPs and CSPs should prioritize—like cost efficiency, rapid workload migration, and robust multi-tenancy—to ensure a smooth transition and improved service quality. Discover why VergeIO stands out as a leading VMware alternative, empowering MSPs and CSPs to achieve resilient, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions.
If disaster strikes, the purpose of a disaster recovery plan (DRP) is to guide the available IT personnel through the process of recovering the data center, either at an alternate site owned by the company or a facility owned by…
The concept of the “software-defined data center” (SDDC) emerged around 2012, and since then the term has been adopted by nearly all vendors and heavily debated by analysts. While some argue that it is nothing more than a “marketecture,” and…
One of the most common complaints from organizations that have moved at least some workloads to the cloud is the unpredictability of cloud billing, specifically as it relates to egress fees and transactional IO fees. Egress fees are the price…
There is no doubt that production data is growing, but copy data is growing even faster. More data must be backed up as the stricter compliance landscape creates more comprehensive retention requirements, and copy data is being used to serve…
Most organizations, if they are using cloud resources at all, are only using the cloud for a single purpose. The two most common use cases are backup storage and archive storage. Most organizations also look at the cloud as a…
IT professionals use the phrase “cloud bursting” to describe a process where they move compute and storage to the cloud when the local data center runs out of those resources. But there is another type of bursting that happens to…
DRaaS is the future of disaster recovery, but leveraging cloud backup may be an expensive way to implement it. Cloud replication, because it is operating on the working set, keeps cloud storage costs contained. The cloud replication software also enables organizations with an IT ready secondary site to leverage that site and create their own DRaaS. In either case, the organization is in control of when and how recovery happens. DRaaS built on replication also enables organizations to use the replication software to enable other cloud initiatives like bursting and test/dev. In this article Storage Switzerland explores the various methods to go about creating and implementing a DRaaS solution.
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