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Managing VMware After Broadcom’s Acquisition

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:22:54 -0400

Learn how businesses can manage VMware environments after Broadcom’s acquisition, review licensing, optimize performance, and plan for the future.

VMware has long been a key platform for businesses that rely on virtualization to run servers, applications, and critical workloads. Following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in November 2023, changes to product offerings, licensing, and support arrangements have made it increasingly important for organizations to review how they manage their VMware environments. For businesses across the Caribbean and North America, understanding these changes can help support better IT planning, cost management, and infrastructure reliability.

What Should Businesses Review?

Broadcom’s transition away from selling new perpetual licenses has changed how many organizations approach VMware renewals and purchases. Existing perpetual licenses may still be usable under their applicable terms, but businesses should review their support agreements, renewal dates, entitlements, and future licensing requirements. Understanding your current setup can help you plan ahead and avoid unexpected costs or licensing complications.

1. Assess Your Virtual Infrastructure

A well-managed VMware environment requires more than keeping virtual machines running. Businesses should regularly assess server resources, storage capacity, network performance, virtual machine allocation, and host utilization. An infrastructure assessment can help identify underused resources, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve efficiency without compromising critical workloads.

2. Plan Before Making Major Changes

Changes to licensing, infrastructure requirements, or business needs may prompt organizations to reassess their virtualization strategy. However, moving away from VMware is not automatically the right decision for every business.

Before upgrading, migrating, or replacing an existing platform, consider application compatibility, hardware requirements, operational risks, staff expertise, total cost of ownership, and recovery requirements. A structured assessment can help determine whether optimizing your current VMware environment or evaluating alternatives makes the most sense.

3. Keep Security, Patching, and Backups in Focus

How Annexus Technologies Can Help

Managing a VMware environment takes ongoing planning, technical oversight, and a clear understanding of business requirements. Annexus Technologies helps businesses manage their IT infrastructure and virtualization needs, with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational continuity.

Whether your organization needs help reviewing its VMware environment, maintaining virtual infrastructure, planning upgrades, or evaluating its next steps, the right support can help you make informed decisions.

Take Control of Your VMware Environment

Changes in the VMware landscape are an opportunity to review your current infrastructure and ensure it continues to meet your business needs. With proactive management and thoughtful planning, your organization can make better-informed decisions about licensing, performance, security, and future IT investments.

Need help managing your VMware environment?

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Azure VMware & Everpure Storage in the Caribbean

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:29:30 -0500

Annexus Navigates Your Caribbean Business to Cloud Prosperity

Feeling adrift in a sea of rising cloud costs and limited resources? Caribbean businesses like yours face unique challenges in adopting new technologies while staying competitive in the global market. But fear not, there is a powerful solution on the horizon: Azure VMware Powered by Everpure, offered by your trusted partner, Annexus Technologies.

Charting a Course Towards Innovation

Imagine the familiar reliability of VMware supercharged with the agility and cost-effectiveness of Microsoft Azure. That is precisely what Azure VMware Powered by Everpure delivers, propelling your business forward in the vast ocean of the cloud. As a certified Microsoft and Everpure, formerly known as Pure Storage partner, Annexus Technologies stands by your side, providing unmatched expertise and industry-leading solutions to navigate even the choppiest waters.

Shrink Your Cloud Costs with Enterprise-Grade Data Services

Azure VMware Powered by Everpure offers a revolutionary solution for managing your cloud expenses. Public clouds built on VMware can be integral to your organization’s cloud strategy, enabling seamless workload migration between on-premises storage and the cloud.

Utilizing Azure VMware Solution (AVS) from Microsoft as a fully-managed service amplifies the strengths of virtualization by making the same VMware foundation used in on-premises private data centers available in the cloud. EverpureCloud Block Store™ from Everpure® running in Azure delivers the same cloud-like experience for storage.

Shrinking Azure VMware TCO

AVS is a robust solution but can be costly to scale for many environments and use cases. Adding Everpure Cloud Block Store to AVS can reduce the OPEX involved when using infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, allowing them to be more compelling and viable for your workloads.

Everpure Cloud Block Store achieves cost efficiencies by decoupling storage from other host resources and bringing the data services of Purity to AVS instances. This can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of compute and storage for AVS without having to make trade-offs.

Decoupling Storage to Unlock Scale

AVS resources are expanded by provisioning additional compute and storage nodes into the environment. One of the trade-offs of the AVS platform is that compute and storage are bundled together, resulting in the need to scale both resources together when capacity is needed. This can lead to paying for stranded or unused resources, increasing your overall monthly expenses.

With Everpure Cloud Block Store, you can purchase and scale your storage needs independently of AVS nodes so you will not need to buy compute resources when you only need storage. This results in increased flexibility for AVS deployments that can dramatically lower costs.

Enterprise-Grade VM Data Services

Purity data services, such as Replication, Disaster Recovery (DR), Deduplication, and Compression, allow users to leverage native storage features. Everpure Cloud Block Store is also the only vSphere Storage APIs array integration-enabled solution for VMware cloud offerings, which can further reduce the overall cost of cloud data.

The data reduction strategies in Purity further reduce your overall footprint, enabling benefits on cost that come in the form of reduced ingress/egress charges.

Simplify Hybrid Cloud Mobility

Hybrid cloud addresses business problems, but implementation introduces risk as architecture and processes change. Hybrid cloud is also an additional process to manage. AVS with Everpure Cloud Block Store is a solution that mitigates risk when adopting a hybrid VMware architecture.

Eliminate Complexity

Adopting AVS reduces the risk of migrating VMware workloads from your on-premises data center to the public cloud. Microsoft manages the infrastructure for you, so there is no need to deploy and manage infrastructure. Additionally, services are consumed via subscription, requiring less planning to get up and running based on assumptions. You simply deploy and start using the solution, all while reducing the financial risk of over- or under-purchasing storage.

Enabling Migrations and Burst to Cloud

Migrating to the cloud can be difficult and stalled migrations are bad for business. With AVS providing a managed service, you can eliminate the headaches of infrastructure procurement, installation, and configuration. Focus on the items that really matter: your data and line of business applications.

Make it easy to burst to the public cloud during periods of high demand and make the cloud work for you. You can easily scale up or down by leveraging the speed and subscription purchasing model of AVS with Everpure Cloud Block Store with the elasticity of the public cloud.

Built-in Data Protection

During recovery, utilizing AVS on Everpure Cloud Block Store results in an improved user experience. On failure, it is faster and less expensive to recover since Pure Cloud Block Store volumes can connect to a new virtual machine directly as soon as it is spun up. AVS volumes need to be restored from backup.

Solution Use Cases

With AVS and Everpure Cloud Block Store, users can create their own architecture to support their needs. All users benefit from the ease of deployment and management offered by Purity. The simplicity of a subscription model combined with Purity data protection features make AVS powered by Purity an ideal solution.

Azure VMware Is Better with Everpure Cloud Block Store

AVS is a groundbreaking solution that assists VMware on Microsoft users by bringing them the flexibility of the cloud. Everpure accelerates AVS adoption and growth by removing the economic barrier in scaling cloud storage. Everpure Cloud Block Store, built on the same foundation as FlashArray, enables AVS customers to grow storage independently from other host resources, giving the same experience, density, and data protection that Everpure users expect.

Feature	Benefit	Quantifiable Outcome
Decoupled Storage	Pay only for what you use	Up to 30% reduction in cloud costs
Hybrid Cloud Mobility	Seamless workload movement	Effortless migration and reduced downtime
Built-in Data Protection	Disaster recovery, ransomware protection, data reduction	Peace of mind and business continuity
Scalability	Easy resource adaptation	Agile response to changing business needs
Performance Optimizations	Faster processing and response times	Improved user experience and productivity
Familiar VMware Management	Utilize existing tools and skills	Reduced training costs and quicker adoption

Do not be left adrift in the digital ocean! Contact Annexus Technologies today and harness the power of Azure VMware Powered by Everpure to navigate towards a prosperous future for your Caribbean business.

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Virtualization Services: Modern IT Solutions

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 03:21:41 -0500

Unlock Efficiency and Flexibility: Annexus Technologies' Virtualization Solutions

Explore the power of virtualization with Annexus Technologies' comprehensive suite of services, leveraging our valuable partnership with industry leader VMware®. Virtualization offers unparalleled opportunities to reduce IT expenses while increasing efficiency and agility, benefiting businesses of all sizes.

With our Virtualization Services, you can:

Run multiple operating systems and applications on a single server, maximizing resource utilization.
Consolidate hardware to achieve higher productivity from fewer servers, resulting in significant cost savings.
Simplify IT management, maintenance, and deployment of new applications, speeding up processes and enhancing overall efficiency.

Our services cover various types of virtualization:

Network Virtualization: Harness the power of logical segmentation to utilize segments of a single physical network efficiently. This enables scalability for business needs by adding partitions in real-time.
Desktop Virtualization (VDI): Empower your workforce with remote access to hosted environments, eliminating the need for individual software installations. Streamline IT support processes and enhance productivity.
Server Virtualization: Partition a single physical server into multiple smaller servers, each capable of acting independently. Cut hardware costs while maintaining operational flexibility and scalability.

Investing in virtualization technology not only boosts current efficiency but also prepares your organization for future growth and challenges. With a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure, you can align strategic goals, optimize budget allocations, and ensure the quality of service.

Let Annexus Technologies help you navigate the virtualization landscape and determine the best solutions for your organization's needs. Contact our experts today to start virtualizing and optimizing your IT infrastructure.

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