Groundwork
Notes from running this in production — migrations, cost breakdowns, benchmarks, and the occasional postmortem. Written by the engineers who did the work.
Leaving VMware: what to settle before you choose where to go
In short. Most VMware exits choose a platform first and discover their requirements second. The evaluation gets run against a shortlist assembled from what is popular, and the actual constraints — renewal timing, compliance commitments, who can operate the result — surface later and invalidate the choice. Preparation is not paperwork before the real work. It is […]
Seven ways an “open source” cloud still locks you in
“Built on open source” has become a reassurance that doesn’t reassure. It’s true of nearly every provider now, and it tells you almost nothing about whether you could leave one. The licence was never what trapped anyone. These seven things are, and a provider can have every one of them while running entirely open source […]
Proxmox vs OpenStack vs VMware in 2026
Every team facing a Broadcom renewal ends up comparing Proxmox vs OpenStack vs VMware, and most of the answers they find were written in 2021. The received wisdom goes: VMware is the serious one, Proxmox is the cheap one for small shops,OpenStack is the complicated one for people building clouds. That was a fair summary […]
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