How Telefónica Tech VMware Hosted Platform Provides Stability through Broadcom Uncertainty
How Telefónica Tech's VMware Hosted Platform Provides Stability through Broadcom Uncertainty
I bet this sounds familiar…
You’ve been running your line-of-business applications on VMware for years.
There have been occasional issues, but generally it has been a solid runner, giving you the confidence to run your business without needing to worry about how the infrastructure is doing.
Then Broadcom entered the scene and shook things up. Suddenly, the infrastructure platform you weren’t having to pay too much attention to became much more expensive to run.
Additionally, Broadcom are insisting that you need to use their full VCF product suite, but you only need a subset of the features! Your technical teams are telling you that you need to stay on VMware to continue the stability that has allowed you to grow the business over the years…
That was two years ago…
…You made a plan…
You were going to exit VMware and start a bright new world with a new hypervisor or move everything to the public cloud.
But maybe that turned out to be too ambitious… because now we are here: your VMware license and support is going to expire soon and no viable hypervisor has been found that matches the required features and the stability that your technical teams need to give them confidence that business applications and functions will continue unaffected.
Your application and software vendors haven’t certified your applications to even run on other hypervisors, and their plans to re-write the applications to be cloud-native to take full advantage of the public cloud haven’t managed to move into the “Now” or “Next” sections of the roadmaps – they’re still sitting quietly, gathering dust on the “Later” list.
Your finance team are concerned that a simple lift-and-shift of the existing application stacks into the public cloud will not result in any cost savings, and aren’t convinced about the unpredictable costs associated with that project.
Your purchasing and legal teams haven’t been comfortable with the continuous changes to licensing and pricing that Broadcom implemented and remain reticent to move to the new subscription model when the current perpetual licensing support ends.
And as if that wasn’t enough, the wider market has shifted under your feet again. Over the last 12-18 months supply chain issues have driven significant price hikes in DRAM, SSDs, and GPUs, and caused delays for new infrastructure. That shiny ‘refresh the estate and move to something new’ project suddenly comes with a huge CapEx bill and a much longer lead time than anyone thought likely.
At the same time, the path to public cloud hasn’t stayed as smooth as it seemed. With a well-publicised capacity crunch leading to more frequent allocation failures and manual quote reviews. For many organisations this has turned Disaster Recovery into a costly gamble, to be confident a DR site will actually power on during an incident, you’re now being told to secure pre-approved ‘double-quotes’ and reserved capacity up front – effectively paying twice, just in case…
So now you’re not just wrestling with VMware licensing and vendor relationships, you’re also facing a host of challenges:
- Higher and more unpredictable hardware costs if you refresh on-prem
- Public cloud regions where you can’t always rely on capacity being there when you need it
- A DR strategy that feels more like a ‘best effort’ request than a guaranteed safety net
Has your application roadmap caught up?
Probably not…
So you need to continue to run on VMware to keep the technical teams and applications and software vendors happy. You need to ensure that costs are predictable and centrally controllable to keep the finance team happy. And you need to avoid entering new agreements or relationships with Broadcom to allay any concerns from legal and purchasing colleagues.
So you’re stuck.
Right?
Not quite…
Where private cloud service providers come in
This is where Telefónica Tech VMware Hosted Platform comes in, as an Infrastructure as a Service platform. Recognising that VMware still brings unrivalled confidence and stability to all types of virtual workloads for organisations worldwide, Telefónica Tech have made long-term investments into our Broadcom commercial relationship and continue to build on our years of experience in delivering great services to customers on top of our hosted VMware virtualisation platforms.
Because we’ve already invested heavily in our VMware Hosted Platform, we can absorb much of the impact of rising hardware costs and remove the immediate need for large CapEx projects on your side over the next twelve months. Instead of trying to time the hardware market or guess when supply constraints will ease, you can move to a predictable service model and let us worry about the underlying infrastructure.
Customers depend on Telefónica Tech’s VMware Hosted Platform – either our general purpose shared platform, or our performance-adjustable, siloed, dedicated platforms – to continue running the virtual workloads underpinning their business applications, with a full UK support team managing the environment.
- Your technical and application teams remain happy that they can continue to support your business using technology they are familiar and comfortable with, maintaining that all-important stability
- We maintain the relationship with Broadcom, removing any concerns about relationship uncertainty and protecting customers from unexpected price increases
- We provide transparent and predictable pricing, leaving customers in control over their spending and preventing any unplanned cost spirals. The longer the contracted commit, the long the predictable pricing can be locked in, allowing businesses to focus on their operations rather than ongoing concerns about infrastructure costs and relationships.
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