Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in 2023 had an immediate and significant impact on the enterprise IT world. Organizations with significant virtual infrastructure environments were quickly forced to navigate new subscription models, new product portfolio bundles, reseller agreements, and massive cost increases. While some companies used this as an opportunity to assess their infrastructure and evaluate options, many are “stuck” as they decide how to proceed with new licensing agreements, their legacy infrastructure, and the best path forward.

So, what can organizations do to pragmatically address their VMware environments and balance cost, modernization, and resourcing efforts? In our latest Perspective, learn what IT leaders can and should do immediately to understand their risk and carve a solid path forward.

While you may not find Technical Debt on any IT industry priority lists, many IT leaders identify technical debt – the accumulated liability of past technology investments and decisions – as a significant cost and resource burden on their organization. Many feel the problem is so vast and so complex that it seems entirely unsolvable.

But is it? 

In our latest Windval perspective, we draw a parallel between addressing technical debt and the world of personal finance. Through that lens, IT leaders can begin to understand, organize, and prioritize the issue and begin making incremental progress to avoid technical debt bankruptcy. 

As enterprise IT organizations seek to optimize their environments, improve operations, and enhance customer experiences, cloud computing continues to be a driving force for transformation and modernization. Some IT leaders are however revisiting potentially dated cloud strategies and right sizing their environments; considering the mobility of their cloud assets and in some cases, planning an exit of some of those assets.

As large enterprises embrace "Everything as a Service" (XaaS) models, IT teams value delegating the difficult aspects of resiliency to cloud providers. While cloud services do alleviate some of these responsibilities, they also introduce new complexities and dependencies that organizations must consider as part of their resiliency strategies.

Many large enterprises are embracing Zero Trust as a security framework to support larger digital transformation initiatives. While Zero Trust can bring many benefits such as reducing security vulnerabilities, supporting regulatory and compliance requirements, enabling automation, and enhancing the employee experience, many of these enterprises struggle to implement the framework dues to timelines, costs, and IT environment complexities.

With an endless list of potential technology partners to choose from, how do you select the right one to help you deliver your next critical project?

The Windval Way is how we describe our approach to partnerships and what our clients experience when engaging our team of advisors, technologists, and program leaders.

Regardless of their maturity posture, most organizations feel they are under-investing in cybersecurity.

But are they? Or is it more about investing effectively instead?

In the early days of cloud computing, many organizations established a Cloud First strategy to drive cloud adoption. Does a Cloud First approach still make sense today?