In the old days, IT capabilities came with many hidden costs because everything was proprietary, and vendors got to charge you out the nose for their unique features. That’s why organizations like yours are considering a VEXIT to escape the costs of legacy virtualization.
Let me explain.
Once upon a time, you paid out the nose for proprietary hardware. But over the years, commoditization made costs more clear-cut.
At first, servers were a commodity.
Then switches and storage became commodities.
Then cloud drove out costs by building on commoditized hardware (server, storage, and networking.)
But cloud has a secret approach to controlling costs. Cloud also commoditized virtualization of all forms-hypervisors for compute, virtual network functions for networking, and software defined storage. Today, many organizations have a “cloud first” strategy because cloud gives them an inclusive package of capabilities because they are in effect renting hardware and integrated virtualization layers for a single price.
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David Marshall is the founder of VMblog.com, one of the industry's longest-running independent publications covering modern data center technologies. What began as a focus on virtualization and cloud computing has expanded to cover the full spectrum of enterprise IT, including AI, security, and DevOps, making VMblog a trusted destination for vendor news, technology analysis, and industry commentary.Beyond publishing, David has spent his career at the intersection of technology and business, inventing, marketing, and launching a number of successful software companies and products, and building a reputation as a skilled marketing executive in the enterprise IT space.David is also a published author, having written two well-regarded books on virtualization and served as technical editor for two "For Dummies" titles covering virtualization and cloud computing. He co-founded CloudCow.com, a publication focused on cloud computing, and has been named a VMware vExpert every year since 2009, one of the longest continuous honoree streaks in the program's history.Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarshall/
