For the past year, IT leaders have been navigating one of the most disruptive shifts the VMware ecosystem has ever seen. Price changes, licensing uncertainty, and shifting product bundles are forcing teams to re-evaluate their infrastructure roadmap — all while cyber threats, outages, and staffing shortages continue to rise.
But beneath the chaos is an opportunity: AI-enhanced business continuity and modern DRaaS platforms, combined with emerging VMware hosting alternatives, are giving organizations a way to build resilience, stabilize costs, and protect critical workloads with more intelligence than ever before.
VMware customers across every vertical have felt the pressure — renewal costs climbing, feature bundles expanding beyond what teams actually use, and limited on-premises options thanks to supply chain delays and shrinking colocation capacity. VMware price hikes are catching many IT teams off guard making stability suddenly harder to find.
According to multiple industry analysts:
These pressures have created a perfect storm — one where cost predictability, scalability, and operational resilience matter more than ever.
As organizations rethink their VMware strategy — whether keeping workloads on-prem, shifting to a private cloud, or embracing a hybrid model — one trend is impossible to ignore: AI is emerging as the engine behind next-generation business continuity.
It’s enhancing the way organizations detect issues, protect data, and orchestrate recovery, often before human teams even know there’s a problem.
In this environment, business continuity is no longer just about having a backup copy of data. It’s about building an intelligent defense posture that adapts as fast as the threats do.
One of the most common misconceptions is that moving VMware workloads to the cloud automatically means higher cost. Many IT decision makers don’t realize they can host VMware environments in the cloud.
Hosting VMware in a managed cloud environment comes with major benefits:
A single export produces real numbers, often revealing that cloud-based VMware hosting is not only viable, but financially strategic.
You don’t need to face VMware renewal shock alone. Convergent partners with leading providers — including 11:11 Systems, Expedient, and Akamai — to deliver continuity solutions purpose-built for today’s challenges:
Whether you’re planning your next renewal, rethinking on-prem investment, or preparing for an AI-driven future, Convergent can help you design a roadmap that protects uptime, people, and business outcomes to put your organization on solid ground.