From the first commercial VMware deployments inside Fortune 100 companies through private clouds, mainframe and AIX migrations and the move to public cloud, Disruption Consulting brings virtualization experience built over the full life of the technology. Whether you are moving off VMware, tuning an existing estate or re-engineering for cloud, we have done it before at scale.
The Broadcom acquisition of VMware has changed the licensing and commercial landscape. Now is the time to assess your options.
Our virtualization experience starts at the beginning of enterprise virtualization. Our consultants worked inside Fortune 100 companies implementing VMware when virtualization was still a novel idea, building the business cases, designing the architectures and running the migrations that proved the technology at scale. That history means we understand VMware from the ground up, not as a product to deploy but as a platform whose capabilities, limits and evolution we have lived alongside.
From early vSphere deployments to vCloud Director private clouds, from vSAN hyper-converged infrastructure to VMware Cloud on AWS, we have designed, built and operated it. We bring the same depth to helping organizations decide what comes next.
Disruption Consulting draws on our open source support services and commercial partnerships to offer a range of alternatives to VMware, from fully open source platforms to commercial hypervisors and container platforms.
We have deep experience with open source virtualization, including Proxmox VE, KVM and Xen Server, which give an enterprise-capable alternative to VMware at significantly lower licensing cost. For an organization with the in-house capability to operate them, they can deliver equivalent function at a fraction of the total cost of ownership.
For workloads that can be containerized, we help organizations move from a virtual machine per application to container platforms, which increases density, portability and operational efficiency. On-premises with OpenShift or Kubernetes, or cloud-native with EKS, AKS or GKE, containerization changes the economics of running applications.
For organizations building private cloud at scale we design and deliver OpenStack environments, a fully open self-service cloud infrastructure platform. With our Morpheus (now part of HPE) experience we can deliver multi-cloud management and orchestration spanning VMware, OpenStack and public cloud in one service catalog.
Where open source is not the right fit, we work through partnerships with commercial virtualization vendors to deliver alternatives that match or exceed VMware capability. Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Virtualization and HPE platforms all provide enterprise-grade options with strong commercial support.
Our virtualization and replatforming work is backed by deep partnerships with the major vendors in the space, which gives clients commercial terms, specialist technical support and roadmap access.
OpenShift, RHEL and virtualization: an open source enterprise platform with full commercial support.
Hyper-converged infrastructure and the AHV hypervisor as a VMware alternative.
Multi-cloud management, service catalog and orchestration across heterogeneous environments.
Storage, compute and hyper-converged infrastructure for private cloud and virtualization.
AIX, Power Systems and mainframe experience for legacy workload migration and modernization.
Enterprise storage including ONTAP and StorageGRID for virtualization and cloud.
Lifting VMware workloads straight into public cloud rarely delivers the expected saving, because virtual machines sized for on-premises peak load are expensive to run in cloud around the clock. Disruption Consulting goes further and re-engineers applications and servers to use cloud-native capability properly.
Moving workloads to scaling groups, serverless architecture and dynamic compute aligns cloud spend to actual demand, which minimizes cost, improves return on investment and gives infrastructure that scales with the business rather than against it.
Migrating away from VMware, moving to public cloud or assessing open source alternatives, we will review your environment, model the options and deliver a transition plan that lowers risk.
