Migration math settles more VMware exits than feature grids do. Buyers who compare license lines alone answer the wrong question. Three-year totals, labor and risk included, is the only number that decides it.
- The middle path looks cheap and rarely is, because you pay for two platforms at once during the overlap.
- A full exit pencils out only when you plan past year three and accept the operational risk of running it yourself.
- CloudBolt’s survey of 302 IT decision makers found 86 percent are reducing VMware slowly, workload by workload.
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The economics behind this migration wave, including the three year cost model and why exits run long, are in the 2026 State of Enterprise Infrastructure report.
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