Migrate AVS to reduce costs

Are your VMware licences coming up for renewal

The new pricing model for VMware can lead to significant cost increases for some customers.

 

Switching to Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution (AVS) offers a speedy and cost-effective alternative to mitigate rising platform ownership costs. AVS will typically allow significant reductions in customers’ cost customersand provide additional benefits such as scalability, security and a stronger AI-ready digital core. 

 

Avoid rising VMware costs

What is behind this pricing issue

Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023 and has introduced wide-reaching changes to product portfolios and licencing models. 

What are the price changes

The pricing has shifted to a bundle subscription model meaning you can no longer maximise the lifecycle of a CapEx licence purchase and also, the bundle may include products you don’t use.

What is timing for price changes

The main consideration is your VMware licence expiration date, but now is the time to plan your mitigation strategy and surface potential cost savings even before the expiration date.

What's the likely impact?

These changes are resulting in significant cost increases for many customers

 
What value to move to AVS

Aside from cost savings, you can continue to utilise your investments in VMware 

and extend those common tools to Azure. You can upskill your team in cloud in the process.

What is Avanade's solution?

Avanade is proposing AVS migration as a simple and fast solution to mitigate VMware price increases, but you can choose alternatives like native Azure solutions.

 

What’s your VMware strategy?

Join us for a 1 hour webinar to hear from Avanade and Microsoft experts and clients who have transitioned, discussing migration strategies, incentives and cost savings.

How Avanade can help

Avanade is helping customers manage, migrate and modernise their VMware investments all over the world. We have migrated millions of Azure workloads for our clients. We can quickly develop your mitigation plan and commence execution within weeks to protect your budgets and accelerate your journey to a stronger digital core.

Avanade VMware migration approach

Our approach

Following an initial assessment, during the discovery and design phase, Avanade Azure experts will assess your current VMware and Azure environments to develop a personalised design and guide you in extending your VMware environment to Azure.

 

Avanade’s automation and asset library speed deployment allow for a secure, production-ready VMware landing zone. Avanade’s planning methodology will help determine what servers should move and when and where remediation is needed. We use our expert service Avanade Cloud Impact to help you identify and manage cloud cost, business risk, technical debt, and sustainability impact, enabling you to develop a resilient digital core, while releasing up to 50% of cloud costs for investment in innovation.

 

Finally, we use Avanade’s migration factory execute the plan and move your workloads to Azure.

Your VMware migration expert

Request a complimentary assessment

Contact Avanade to request a complimentary 2-hour assessment. We will provide the information you need to make the right decisions.

You'll receive

Information about AVS and suitability for your circumstances
A high-level estimate of the cost of migration (subject to necessary inputs)
Indication as to whether Microsoft funding might be available
A follow up bespoke plan for the next stage of the process

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