Many school districts and organizations are concerned about the changes as a result of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and are looking for alternatives. In recent months, customers have reported huge price increases, changes in minimum contract lengths, and decreasing satisfaction with support. Analysts suggest that customers should start their technical evaluation of alternatives if they haven’t done so already.
More and more organizations are choosing Microsoft and Azure Local for a hybrid cloud solution that brings the power of Azure Local to on-premises. It provides the benefits and features of the cloud, while still having the options necessary for data sovereignty, compliance, or other issues that mandate on-premises storage of data or operations. And Azure Local enables you to utilize Azure services such as Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc-enabled data services, SQL Managed Instance, and AI at the edge.
DataON has helped school districts such as Cherokee County School District (GA) and Orange County Unified School District (CA) to have the confidence to leave VMware behind and make the switch to Azure Local.
