Tech Talk | Beyond VMware: Practical Paths Forward After Broadcom
Date: Tuesday, June 16 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has prompted many midmarket and enterprise IT organizations to reassess their virtualization strategies. Rising uncertainty around licensing, support, long-term costs, and ecosystem direction has pushed teams to ask a practical question: Is there a safer, less disruptive path forward?
In this live Tech Talk, industry experts will discuss how organizations can evaluate VMware alternatives without introducing unnecessary operational risk or complexity. The conversation will focus on the realities of moving away from VMware, the importance of choosing familiar, well-supported technologies, and how Hyper-V-based private and multi-tenant cloud environments can offer a more straightforward path for organizations seeking stability and continuity.
Attendees will learn what to consider when assessing virtualization alternatives, how to avoid migration approaches that create new technical and operational burdens, and why data protection, disaster recovery, and workload conversion should be part of the planning process from the start. The session will also explore how organizations can maintain familiar operational models while modernizing their infrastructure strategy.
The discussion will include field perspective and customer examples, including how organizations are responding to the Broadcom disruption and evaluating Microsoft-based alternatives supported by proven backup, recovery, and migration technologies.
What You Will Learn:
- Why Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is prompting organizations to reassess their virtualization strategies
- What risks to watch for when evaluating VMware alternatives
- How Hyper-V-based private and multi-tenant cloud options can support a less disruptive migration path
- Why data protection, disaster recovery, and workload conversion should be part of migration planning from the start
- How to maintain familiar operational workflows while moving to a new virtualization environment
- What questions IT leaders should ask before choosing a post-VMware strategy
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About the presenters:
Rick Vanover, Vice President, Product Strategy, Veeam
Rick Vanover is Vice President, Product Strategy for Veeam Software. Rick’s experience includes system administration and IT management, with virtualization, cloud, and storage technologies being the central theme of his career recently. Follow Rick on Twitter @RickVanover or @Veeam
Byron Dill, Director of Solutions Engineering, Summit
Byron Dill is Director of Solutions Engineering at Summit. With over a decade of experience in IT infrastructure, Byron brings technical knowledge and strong commitment to create client-centric solutions and scalable systems.
Michael Meyer, Vice President, Product & Strategy, Summit
Michael Meyer is Vice President, Product & Strategy at Summit. With 20+ years across managed services, Mike builds the operating model behind Summit's service offerings, including portfolio strategy, onboarding, and day-2 execution.
John K, Waters, Editor at Large, Redmondmag.com
As the Editor in Chief in the Converge360 group of 1105 Media, journalist and author John K. Waters manages leading news sites focused on worldwide technology trends, from artificial intelligence to the software development lifecycle.
Date: 06/16/2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 1 hour