Is It Time for a VMware Alternative?

If you’re looking for options to VMware, consider these reasons to replace it with Wind River Cloud Platform.

Companies have options when it comes to replacing VMware as their cloud platform, to address rising costs, support concerns, and a shrinking partner ecosystem. If you are ready to contemplate a different vendor, here are five reasons why Wind River Cloud Platform should be on your short list of VMware alternatives.

Cloud Platform Is Cost-Effective

When you look at VMware alternatives, consider the cost savings promises carefully. Look for the financial benefits beyond the monthly invoice – such as the money you don’t have to spend up front. Cloud Platform saves costs through lower overhead, including a reduced CPU core count, and therefore a reduced server count.

Cloud Platform also provides operational savings by enabling management through a single pane of glass, as well as savings by bundling the Linux operating system, analytics, and operations automation tooling all together, with far more functionality than our competitors’ offerings.

The bonus is system sustainability benefits. Mission-critical systems often must be maintained for a long period of time. Cloud Platform helps you do that in a cost-effective way.

Cloud Platform Is a Proven VMware Replacement

It is important to choose a partner for your VMware replacement that is experienced. Having personnel with deep expertise, born from years of work in the field, is just as important as the technology solution.

Wind River has extensive deployment experience at all levels of scale, including experience replacing VMware deployments at very high scale. That experience matters when you need assistance in network engineering, deployment services, or even managed services.

A proven partner can ensure that your migration completes quickly, with minimum disruption. And then it can support you in the years to come.

Cloud Platform Is Built for High-Performance Environments

You need a cloud infrastructure for situations where systems must work under the most stressful circumstances and “mission critical” is not just a buzzword. Wind River delivers. That’s why some of the world’s largest telecom networks using Cloud Platform enjoy better than five nines of availability – with less than 30 seconds of downtime per year – backed by industry-leading service-level agreements.

It’s essential to manage and automate tasks in demanding computing environments. High availability and adept failure recovery are in our genes. Our tools earn the trust of system administrators, which is why Cloud Platform has been deployed at so many organizations and in so many different use cases. Our customer case studies bear this out, such as deploying and supporting the world’s largest 5G vRAN network at Verizon and the world’s largest Open RAN deployment at Boost Mobile.

Cloud Platform Supports Your Tech Stack

We are stack agnostic. Cloud native? OCI containers? Virtual machines? We work with all the platforms you do. Cloud Platform supports external storage solutions, too. In particular, we support OpenStack natively, which makes it easier to move your VMware virtual machines to a new environment. Our flexibility means your shop can work the way it wants to.

System administrators like Cloud Platform for the straightforwardness of the cloud platform’s centralized management tools and functionality that makes cloud operators feel right at home.

And it offers better options for CIOs who are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Because you can continue to use your existing applications, you can choose the hardware and components that suit your needs – and your budget.

Cloud Platform Has a Strong Open-Source Heritage

Cloud Platform is based on a full open-source tech stack. As most enterprise organizations have discovered, open-source tools offer technical and business advantages, including flexibility and customization, community-driven innovation, security, and long-term viability.

This open-source solution makes it easy to migrate from VMware to Cloud Platform. All VMware capabilities are addressed by this complete solution.

The open-source underpinnings means that Wind River is motivated to stay competitive – as we do with our automation and lifecycle management tools. We know you have plenty of alternatives; it’s easy to migrate away from us, if you so choose. To earn and keep your business, we must innovate and deliver the best possible service. We expect you’ll find that we do.

Learn More

Does this pique your interest? Find out about the features in Wind River Cloud Platform. And then, discover how easy it is to migrate from VMware to Cloud Platform.