Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now?

The price of eggs and butter might have soared in the last couple of years, but if you want a real sticker shock horror story, ask a VMware customer. After Broadcom acquired VMware in 2023, some of them complained about hypervisor licenses rising by up to 600 percent. Add to that the difficulty in refreshing hardware thanks to supply-chain delays, and the enterprise AI plan your board is asking for begins to look like a distant dream. Migrating comes with costs too. It isn't just a compute-level move; networking, storage, management tools, and security all come along for the ride. Gartner found projects taking 18 to 48 months, at $300 to $3,000 per VM. On October 7 at The Brewery in London, Nutanix will help you tackle the migration problem and set up a solid AI strategy at the same time. .NEXT on Tour London is a free, day-long event for infrastructure leaders, cloud architects, platform engineers and datacenter managers. It's a chance to share coffee with your peers and lament the pain of being a tech leader during one of the craziest moments in the industry, while exploring the way forward. Ideally, you'll walk away with a migration blueprint at the end of the day. The details of everyone's blueprint will vary, but one thing will likely be the same: a software-first approach. With new tin currently costing two limbs and your first-born, Nutanix will counsel you to sweat your assets or harness the cloud. Deploying software that ties together and manages your existing infrastructure will be a key theme, with sessions on external storage integrations and hardware reuse. It doesn't matter if you're doing it on-premises or in the cloud, or both; the executive keynote from Nutanix chief technology officer Manosiz Bhattacharyya focuses on choice. Making migration hurt less is only one goal for the day. The other is working out an AI strategy that you can pursue with the money you'll save. Everyone's talking about this but it's a challenge; only 37% of AI initiatives over the past 12 months were classified as live and delivering value, per S&P Global. You can learn how to control token costs and tackle the scourge of shadow AI with Nutanix Agentic Gateway. If migrating your infrastructure and readying it for AI seems daunting, take a breath and listen to the guest speaker Bonita Norris, the youngest person to reach both the North Pole and the summit of Everest. That'll give you some perspective. Attendance is free. Secure your place here. Sponsored by Nutanix.