Broadcom Acquisition: Prices rising up to 800%*

Your VMware bill
exploding?

You're not alone. Thousands of companies are looking for a way out of the cost trap – and finding it in open infrastructure.

70%
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Critical Situation

VMware is becoming abusiness risk

After the Broadcom acquisition, many IT departments face a difficult decision.

+800%*

Cost explosion

Price increases since the Broadcom acquisition. Trend rising.

100%

Vendor lock-in

Total dependency on a single vendor. No way out.

6-12mo.

Migration nightmare

Traditional migration projects take extremely long and tie up resources with low success rates.

There is a better way.

The alternative

Open infrastructure.Full control.

clouditiv combines the best of OpenStack with enterprise-grade support – without the VMware price tag.

70% cost reduction

No per-CPU licensing. No forced bundles. Pay only for what you use.

Zero lock-in

Open source at the core. Your data stays yours. Move anytime.

Enterprise support

24/7 support from OpenStack experts. No community forums.

Cost comparison

Where do the costs come from?

Virtualization licenses
vs
Support & maintenance
vs
Add-on modules (backup, HA, etc.)
vs
Scaling costs
vs
Vendor lock-in risk
vs
VMware
clouditiv
Savings potential by size
< 50 VMs
40-60%
Moderate
50-200 VMs
55-70%
High
> 200 VMs
65-70%
Very high
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* Based on experience. Individual analysis recommended.

All features included

One platform. Everything included.

Every feature you know from VMware – and many more features already included.

Compute

Virtual Machines

Nova Compute

Migrate your VMs 1:1 from VMware – without adjustments to your workloads.

Kubernetes

Magnum K8s

Container orchestration out-of-the-box. No separate K8s installation needed.

Container Runtime

Zun

Run Docker containers directly – without Kubernetes overhead for simple workloads.

Storage

Block Storage

Cinder

Persistent storage for VMs and containers. Snapshots, backups, replication included.

Object Storage

Swift (S3-compatible)

Scales unlimited. Your backups and unstructured data – S3-API compatible.

File Storage

Manila

Shared filesystems (NFS/CIFS) for legacy applications and shared data storage.

Network

Software Defined Network

Neutron SDN

Isolated networks, VLANs, routing – all in software. No expensive network hardware.

Load Balancer

Octavia LBaaS

Highly available load balancers for your applications. SSL termination, health checks.

VPN as a Service

VPNaaS

Site-to-site VPN to your other locations or cloud providers.

How it works

To your new platform in 3 steps

01

Assessment

We analyze your current VMware environment and create a customized migration plan.

1-2 weeks
02

Setup

Our installer automatically configures your new OpenStack platform on your hardware.

1-2 days
03

Migration

Step-by-step migration of your workloads with minimal risk. We can take over operations if needed.

2-4 weeks

Migration guarantee

We guarantee a successful migration or you don't pay. Zero risk for you.

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