2024-25 DCIG TOP 5 SMB/Edge VMware vSphere Alternatives Solutions Report Now Available

Free Inaugural Report Offers Smaller Organizations Path Forward with Viable vSphere Alternatives

OMAHA, Neb., (August 15th, 2024) – DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2024-25 DCIG TOP 5 SMB/Edge VMware vSphere Alternatives Report. This report provides guidance on the DCIG TOP 5 VMware vSphere alternative solutions that smaller organizations should consider as they address Broadcom’s recent changes to VMware’s software licensing. The report is now available for free download.

“DCIG’s latest TOP 5 report tackles the market turmoil presented by Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, which is causing headaches for SMB customers and enterprises with many edge locations,” said Bruce Kornfeld, chief product officer, StorMagic. “StorMagic SvHCI is a full-stack hyperconverged solution that can help customers save up to 62 percent over VMware.”

SMBs and organizations with edge environments possess different requirements for a VMware vSphere alternative than enterprises. They still need a vSphere alternative to offer specific core features. These include high-availability, product reliability, software-defined storage, software-defined networking, and the ability to host Windows and Linux guest OSes. They also often look to the provider to deliver education, training, and 24x7x365 technical support.

However, the need to scale the solution to support the highest levels of capacity, networking, and processing may not exist. SMBs and edge sites tend not to run applications and workloads that test the technical limits of the solutions that host them. Further, SMBs and edge sites tend to less frequently experience sudden growth or performance spikes.

These differing, and generally lower, expectations for a hypervisor provided the impetus for these organizations to make a change. Broadcom’s decision to reduce the number of VMware software licenses only contributes to their willingness to explore other options.

The good news: Multiple such alternative solutions exist that may cost less than half of VMware vSphere’s new subscription-based pricing. Further, many of these solutions include software utilities that simplify VM migrations from vSphere to their platform.

In preparing this report, DCIG formally evaluated 15 different VMware vSphere alternative solutions based on multiple different features and capabilities. The general categories under which the features of these SMB/Edge VMware vSphere alternative solutions fell included:

•     Data protection and security.
•     Deployments options.
•     Licensing and pricing.
•     Management.
•     Software options.
•     Technical support.

Based on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following VMware vSphere alternative solutions a DCIG TOP 5 ranking in the SMB/Edge Edition:

•     HiveIO Hive Fabric
•     NodeWeaver
•     Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform)
•     StorMagic SvHCI
•     VergeIO VergeOS

The full DCIG TOP 5 report is available for download immediately at this link. The full report contains additional details such as:

•     A list of all 15 SMB/Edge VMware vSphere alternatives evaluated.
•     A list of all features available with the VMware vSphere Standard software licence.
•     Similarities and differences between the DCIG TOP 5 SMB/Edge VMware vSphere alternatives.
•     A profile of each DCIG TOP 5 SMB/Edge VMware vSphere alternative that lists at least three (3) ways each one distinguishes itself from the other solutions.

Individuals may access the full report at no cost by following this link.

2024-25 DCIG TOP 5 SMB/Edge VMware vSphere Alternatives Report

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