Key implications and steps to navigate through change

Are you evaluating your current enterprise infrastructure platform strategy and planning your next IT steps? You might be interested in a recent report published by Gartner^®, “The CIO’s Guide to Broadcom’s Acquisition of VMware.” According to Gartner, “CIOs must grasp the changes and their implications, and develop actionable strategies to manage through the technological and business disruptions.’’*

Read this analyst report to understand the risks and implications of such technological disruptions. It also provides valuable guidance for IT leaders on navigating change and outlines key actions to consider for developing the most optimal infrastructure strategy:

• "Perform an impartial and objective pilot to assess alternative solutions and determine potential impacts to total cost of ownership (TCO), compatibility, migration costs, product viability, and integrating with cloud-native infrastructure services.
• Act now to plan for the transition from perpetual licensing and a potential change of technologies.
• Explore alternative solutions that align with long-terms strategic goals.
• Conduct an ROI/TCO analysis of the cost of switching by evaluating the additional IT effort and disruption of making this migration, including the replacement costs of any applications, server and storage hardware, third-party management tools, and changing automation scripts."
• Plan a long-term migration roadmap.

NetApp Cloud Insights provides centralized observability to help IT leaders optimize their VMware environment and reduce costs today — and provides guidance supporting advanced IT planning before, during, and after migrations or technology refreshes.

* Gartner, "The CIO’s Guide to Broadcom’s Acquisition of VMware" Julia Palmer, Mike Cisek, Tony Harvey, 3 April 2024
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