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Becoming unstuck from VMware
A step-by-step approach to modernise your infrastructure for the future
It's a tough time to be a VMware customer.
Broadcom's 2024 acquisition has created a world of pain. A pure profit focus means price hikes of 100%+ for most customers, slashed product options, multi-year lock-in contracts, bare minimum support and stalled innovation.
If you're like many businesses, your systems have become a 'spaghetti mess' of virtual services, mission-critical applications and interdependencies that leave you feeling stuck. More price rises are looming, major vendors like Dell are ending agreements and there’s no clear escape route.
If you're in VMware procrastination mode, you're not alone.
Waiting isn't a strategy.
Doing nothing or simply outsourcing the challenge to your MSP is too risky. The decisions you make now will impact your business for years to come. This pivotal moment is an opportunity to reassess your entire IT infrastructure, focusing on risk minimisation, cost optimisation and modernisation for future growth.
"VMware has a huge amount of vendor lock-in – super glue-style lock-in."
– Scott Bickley, Advisory Practice Lead, Info-Tech Research Group
So, what is everyone else doing about it?
In a regional-first initiative, we're asking ANZ VMware customers what they're thinking and what help they need to move forward.
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5-Minute Survey | Detailed Report | Expert Online Event
GET UNSTUCK IN 4 STEPS
There are levers you can pull to flip the script and take back control.
With trusted guidance, what might feel like an impossible journey can be broken down into manageable steps.
Start wherever makes sense for your business.
Step 1: Share your thoughts
Contribute to ANZ's first VMware Impact research study and explore important considerations for your business. Once the survey closes, you'll receive a comprehensive report with consolidated insights from business leaders across our region.
The survey takes less than 5 minutes, and there’s a $500 gift card up for grabs!
Step 2: Take part in the discussion
Join our online readiness event, where AWS experts facilitate a critical discussion across the ANZ business community. They'll unpack the VMware Impact research findings, share practical migration pathways and feature customers who've successfully made the shift, plus Q&As.
Step 3: Get your free assessment
Receive a fully AWS-funded assessment that illuminates your current VMware setup, costs, risks and options – supporting your strategic reassessment with pathways that minimise risk, optimise costs and enable modernisation for future innovation and growth.
Step 4: Plan your migration
Work with trusted AWS experts to explore flexible migration options (detailed below) and costs to move at your own pace toward a modernised infrastructure.
Share your thoughts
Ready to share your VMware experience?
Take part in our 5-minute survey and receive exclusive insights on how ANZ businesses are responding, plus an invitation to our expert-led event.
VMware Impact research study:
Navigating the Broadcom acquisition
This survey will shine a light on where ANZ business leaders stand as a community facing this significant change.
The final report will identify key priorities, common challenges and required support – allowing you to assess how you compare and what actions are important for your business.
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Ready to become unstuck?
Register for our exclusive VMware migration readiness event and connect with AWS experts to help plan your path forward.
Plan your migration
Migration and Modernisation Pathways
Migration is not one-size-fits-all. Whether you need to migrate, optimise or modernise your workloads, AWS offers services to help you meet your goals and move your workloads at your own pace.
Relocate your workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is the fastest path to migrate and operate VMware workloads on AWS. Get the scale, resilience and performance of AWS together with familiar VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software and tools. Choose from self-managed or managed options to meet your business needs for control and customisation of your VMware architecture. Embrace AWS native and managed services for analytics, storage, databases, serverless compute, generative AI and more to drive business agility, innovation and transformation.
Rapidly lift-and-shift your workloads to Amazon EC2
Rapidly rehost your VMware Virtual Machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2. Reduce infrastructure costs, scale efficiently and tap into the performance and resiliency of AWS with minimal changes to your applications. With purpose-built migration services such as Amazon Q Developer or AWS Application Migration Service, you can automate undifferentiated migration tasks and expedite your cloud journey with minimal business disruption.
Transform your workloads on AWS with modernisation services
AWS offers multiple pathways to optimise, modernise and transform your workloads. Move from self-managed container platforms to managed services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), ensuring reliable deployments that adapt seamlessly to business demands.
You can also replatform to managed services such as Amazon RDS for databases, Amazon FSx for file storage and Amazon Workspaces for desktop infrastructure, allowing you to focus on strategic IT and business initiatives. If you want to transform your applications to the cloud and take full advantage of cloud-native features, you can refactor applications to serverless with AWS Lambda.
Expand your migration strategy with AWS Partner offerings
Consider AWS Partner offerings such as Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) or Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS (NC2 on AWS) for VMware-based workloads, both available on AWS Marketplace. ROSA helps you have a fully-managed application platform on AWS infrastructure based on Red Hat solutions while NC2 on AWS enables you to run a self-managed hypervisor on top of Amazon EC2 infrastructure.
Case Studies
AWS: Proven partners and pathways to becoming unstuck
As a premier AWS partner in the ANZ region, NEXTGEN brings deep expertise in VMware migrations and cloud modernisation. Our network of AWS-certified partners has successfully guided numerous businesses through the exact challenges you're facing now. See how these ANZ businesses escaped infrastructure constraints with AWS.
Cevo helps Iconic Australian Business Jim's Group modernise its infrastructure
Jim’s Group currently serves over 500,000 customers annually, via web and phone enquiries, which are then allocated to the relevant franchisee in their area.
For over twenty years, all business operations and data storage ran on an internal server, often leading to process and reliability issues and regular downtime. This was costly and often delivered a poor customer experience, resulting in lost revenue for the franchisees.
Having grown rapidly, the organisation realised it could not continue scaling with its current technology. To compete globally and develop smarter, more innovative solutions that would result in greater profitability for franchisees, Jim’s Group began its migration to the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
A key priority was ensuring that the migration was built to last, so they connected with a trusted AWS partner Cevo who worked closely with the existing internal team to help transfer knowledge throughout the transformation and co-develop tools, processes and practices.
The complete modernisation journey took just six months from initial contact to completion, without customer interruption. This created a newly empowered team even more motivated by the new business potential. Overall, it freed up time, delivered a more predictable and consistent cost model and enabled more transparent accountability.
Ultimately, any improvements to the business makes life better and more profitable for franchisees, which in turn helps Jim’s Group attract more franchisees and provide better, more reliable customer service to a rapidly growing market.
Mantalus helps Scalzo Foods migrate data centres to the AWS cloud
Scalzo Foods needed to migrate their data centre environments to the cloud at short notice due to changes in their data centre vendor's business model and unsustainable VMware licence costs. Maintaining business operations while making this transition created significant pressure and risk.
By employing AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), Mantalus swiftly migrated Scalzo's data centre directly to the AWS cloud, replicating the existing structure without complex and costly overhauls.
The migration was executed at a significantly lower project cost than traditional approaches. Scalzo Foods seamlessly transitioned its entire data centre footprint to AWS without disrupting operations. They're now positioned to scale efficiently and better manage future growth while decoupling from financially unsustainable hypervisor licensing.
Share your VMware experience – Win a $500 Gift Card
- Promotion Period - Start 9am, Thursday 1 May 2025 – Closes midnight, Thursday 31 July 2025
- There is ONE (1) $500 AUD gift card available.
- Eligibility - Open to individuals working at organisations in Australia or New Zealand using VMware. Entrants will be automatically entered after they complete the VMware Impact Research Study and share their details (First Name, Last Name, Business Email Address). 1 entry permitted per respondent. Multiple entries excluded.
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