---
title: "Beyond VMware: A Data-Driven Path to Your Next Hypervisor"
description: Evaluate VMware alternatives with confidence. Join Burwood experts to compare hypervisor options and build a data-driven strategy.
---
[](https://www.burwood.com/)
### Webinar:
# **Beyond VMware: A Data-Driven Path to Your Next Hypervisor**
### Register
### October 20th at 11:00am CT
**30-minute presentation + live Q&A**
VMware licensing changes have made virtualization decisions more urgent and more complex. Join Burwood experts for a practical, vendor-neutral framework to evaluate your options before renewal pressure forces the decision.
*Can't make the webinar? Register and you'll receive a copy of the recording sent directly to your email.*
**NO PREDETERMINED ANSWER**
Compare paths objectively, including whether staying with VMware is still the right choice.
**PRACTICAL, NOT PROMOTIONAL**
Get a decision framework you can use, not a product pitch disguised as education.
**BUILT FOR THE RENEWAL CONVERSATION**
Understand the cost, risk, readiness, and support factors leadership needs to weigh.
## See Burwood’s Vendor-Neutral Approach
Before you choose a platform, make sure the platform fits your business. In this 48-second video, Kevin Wood explains why Burwood starts with requirements rather than a preferred vendor.
## **The VMware Landscape Has Changed. Has Your Strategy?**
Changes in VMware licensing and economics have led many organizations to reassess renewal plans, platform dependencies, and long-term infrastructure strategy. Yet moving too quickly can create new cost, support, security, and operational challenges.
The right decision is not simply finding another hypervisor. It is determining which path best fits your applications, infrastructure investments, internal skills, compliance obligations, financial priorities, and modernization goals.
In this webinar, Burwood will share a structured approach for comparing virtualization options and building a decision-ready path forward.
Why VMware Is Now a Business Issue
## **What You’ll Learn**
- What has changed in the VMware landscape and why organizations are reassessing their strategy
- The business and technical factors that should guide a renew, migrate, or modernize decision
- How leading hypervisor options differ and where each may fit
- How to compare platforms using a weighted, requirements-based scorecard
- Common migration risks, including hidden costs, operational readiness, and staff impact
- How to move from uncertainty to a practical recommendation and migration roadmap
## **Why Attend Now?**
**Your next renewal is a decision point**
Entering the renewal window without evaluated alternatives can reduce leverage and compress the time available to plan.
**A rushed migration creates different risks**
A sound decision accounts for functionality, cost, supportability, operational readiness, security, and long-term value.
Who Should Attend the Webinar
## **Who Should Attend?**
This webinar is designed for CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, VPs of Technology, infrastructure leaders, cloud architects, systems administrators, and other technology decision-makers who are:
- Approaching a VMware renewal
- Evaluating virtualization alternatives
- Planning an infrastructure refresh
- Reassessing cloud and data center strategy
- Seeking a defensible recommendation for executive leadership
## **What Makes This Webinar Different?**
**Come for clarity, not a sales pitch.**
The session is designed to help you ask better questions, evaluate tradeoffs, and identify the information needed for a sound decision.
**Evaluate the full business impact.**
The conversation goes beyond licensing to include application dependencies, current infrastructure, staffing, compliance, supportability, cost, and migration risk.
**Leave with a next-step framework.**
You will see how Burwood uses a weighted scorecard to organize requirements and turn competing options into a recommended direction.
# Meet the Presenters
Kevin Wood
Presenter
Kevin will guide attendees through today’s virtualization landscape, the factors that should shape platform selection, and a requirements-first approach to evaluating the available paths.
James Cloud
Expert Q&A
James will join the live Q&A to address questions about platform evaluation, migration planning, operational considerations, and the business implications of changing virtualization strategy.
## From Webinar Insight to a Decision-Ready Plan
The webinar is a free educational introduction to the decisions organizations face. For teams that need a client-specific recommendation, Burwood’s Hypervisor Migration Blueprint provides a structured evaluation of business requirements, application dependencies, infrastructure investments, financial considerations, operational readiness, and risk-management objectives.
The result is a weighted scorecard, a recommended direction, and a migration strategy designed to give leadership a clear path forward. Implementation and managed services can be scoped separately.
## Make the Decision Before the Renewal Makes It for You
Join Burwood for a practical, vendor-neutral discussion designed to help you evaluate your options with greater clarity and confidence.
**Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. Central Time**
## **REGISTER NOW!**
Copyright © 2026 Burwood Group. All Rights Reserved.
```json
{
"@context" : "https://schema.org",
"@type" : "VideoObject",
"caption" : {
"@type" : "MediaObject",
"contentUrl" : "https://info.burwood.com/media-transcripts/222477483342/en.vtt",
"inLanguage" : "en",
"name" : "en Captions"
},
"contentUrl" : "https://4685285.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4685285/video_assets/222477483342/inherited/web_optimized.mp4",
"dateModified" : "2026-09-22T14:44:14.640Z",
"duration" : "PT1M4S",
"height" : 1080,
"name" : "Why Vmware Is Now a Business Issue",
"thumbnailUrl" : "https://4685285.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4685285/Why%20Vmware%20Is%20Now%20a%20Business%20Issue.mp4/medium.jpg",
"uploadDate" : "2026-09-22T14:44:08.701Z",
"width" : 1920
}
```
```json
{
"@context" : "https://schema.org",
"@type" : "VideoObject",
"caption" : {
"@type" : "MediaObject",
"contentUrl" : "https://info.burwood.com/media-transcripts/222477576855/en.vtt",
"inLanguage" : "en",
"name" : "en Captions"
},
"contentUrl" : "https://4685285.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4685285/video_assets/222477576855/inherited/web_optimized.mp4",
"dateModified" : "2026-09-22T15:04:37.029Z",
"duration" : "PT50.792S",
"height" : 1080,
"name" : "Who Should Attend The Webinar",
"thumbnailUrl" : "https://4685285.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/4685285/Who%20Should%20Attend%20The%20Webinar.mp4/medium.jpg",
"uploadDate" : "2026-09-22T15:04:29.223Z",
"width" : 1920
}
```