Have your VMware licenses exploded?

Here's why it might be time to modernize your infrastructure.

Budgetary pressure that accelerates thinking

Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, many companies have faced a sudden and unexpected increase in their licensing costs. The disappearance of perpetual licenses, the imposition of mandatory flat rates, and the transition to a subscription model have disrupted budget forecasts. Some organizations have seen their bills triple year over year, without any technological gain in return. This context is forcing IT departments to rethink their strategic choices. Should we continue to absorb these increases, or is now the right time to initiate a more structural transformation of their IT infrastructure?

Staying with legacy costs more than evolving

Holding on to a traditional infrastructure—often centered around VMware—now means devoting an increasing portion of your IT budget to maintaining what's already there. These aging environments are costly to operate, difficult to scale, and carry increased risks related to delayed updates or security breaches. But above all, they hinder innovation. When an organization must choose between stabilizing the past or investing in the future, business agility suffers. The status quo then becomes an operational obstacle as well as a financial burden.

Migrating to the cloud: a tactical and strategic response

Migrating to the cloud isn't just about “replicating” what already exists elsewhere. It's an opportunity to rethinking IT architecture as a whole, to rationalize assets, clean up obsolete data, and eliminate redundancies that have accumulated over the years. By relying on a cloud infrastructure, companies can adjust their IT capacity in real time—and thus reduce or increase according to seasonality or periods of high demand. This allows for more granular consumption, aligned with real needs, and a more transparent allocation of costs internally. The transition from a CapEx to an OpEx model also makes it possible to avoid massive and rigid investments in hardware and licenses, in favor of a more fluid, adjustable budget that is easier to allocate according to the actual use of resources by the different business units. This approach also offers the possibility of directly allocating costs to the relevant units, based on their actual consumption, thus strengthening financial accountability and alignment between IT and business performance.

Concrete results, quickly observable

Organizations that begin their migration to the cloud typically see a significant reduction in their total cost of ownership (TCO)Fewer physical servers, fewer outages, less maintenance—but faster execution, more resilience, and greater agility to deliver strategic projects. This technological shift also allows IT teams to free themselves from heavy operational tasks and refocus on value-added initiatives: automation, cybersecurity, and the development of new digital services.

Transforming a constraint into leverage

What VMware's rising costs highlight isn't just a pricing shift. It's a strategic wake-up call. It exposes the reliance on rigid technologies, fixed business models, and an architecture that no longer evolves at the organization's pace. Human Genius Cortex, we support medium and large companies in IT modernization programs adapted to their reality. Our approach combines technical assessment, governance, and a clear roadmap to allow you to regain control of your infrastructure. Are you concerned about rising VMware costs?

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