Enterprise IT faces rising virtualization costs and limits. After Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, organizations report licensing hikes up to 1000%, forced bundling, and vendor lock-in—complicating AI-driven and cloud-native workloads. This report explores how open-source solutions address costs and modernization, offering unified management for virtual machines and containers with reliability across edge and data centers. · Cost strategies ensuring predictable pricing without bundling · Open architecture for flexibility and avoiding lock-in · Migration methods minimizing disruption and enabling cloud transformation Read the full report for modernization pathways.
